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LANSDOWNE SCHOOL 



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THE WORLD WAR 



BY 

H. EMILIE GROCE 



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JAN -9 1920 



Copyright 1919, by H. Emilie Groce 
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LANSDOWNE SCHOOL BUILDING 

The oldest part of this building was built in 1889 by the Upper Darby- 
School Board. Lansdowne was not incorporated as a borough until June, 
1893. 

During the summer of 1895 the school, having outgrown the original 
building, had the first addition built to it. This is what now constitutes 
the central section of the grade school. The growth of the school was so 
rapid that four years later another addition was built. We still grew, and 
in 1909-10 the present High School Annex was built; and lastly we have 
the present High School Apartments, built in 1917. 





Principal of the School from the founding of the High School, in 

June, 1892, until June, 1906. Instructor of Mathematics in 

THE High School from June, 1906, until June, 1918. 

Director of War and Relief Work in the 

School, June, 1918, until June, 1919. 





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The Present Principal of the School, Elected to that 
Position in June, 1906. 




Isaac P. Garrett, President of the School Board 
From its Formation, 1893, until July, 1913. 




J. Eugene Baker, President of the School Board- 
since July, 1913. 



BOARD OF SCHOOL DIRECTORS 
OF LANSDOWNE 



J. Eugene Baker, President 
F. S. Underhill, Vice-President 
James T. Stewart, Treasurer 



Alfred G. Steer 
Mrs. Annie S. Cooper 
Walter L. Philips, Secretary 



FACULTY FOR 1917-18 



HIGH SCHOOL 



Walter L. Philips, Principal 

J. Irwin Henshaw, V ice-Principal, 

Science 
H. Emilie Groce, Mathematics 
Edna Hall, History 
Eliz. S. Lyster, English 
Grace A. Filler, English 
Mary L. Stritzinger, German and 

Mathematics 
Ruth S. Bishoff, Latin 
Nettie M. Bender, Chemistry and 

Domestic Science 

*Enlisted and p sition filled by Vincent 



Frances E. Cowdrick, French and 

Ge7'7)imi 
Roy F. Kraber, Commercial 

Branches 
Henrietta M. Smedley, Music 
Gertrude S. Chapman, Physical 

Training 
John E. Wolf, Physical Training 
Helen E. Taylor, Arts 
*Edw. W. Frost, Drawing and 

Manual Arts 
J. C. Daisy Hoist, Secretary 

Prendeville. 



Grades 1917-18 



Margaret Brooke, 8th Grade 
Sadie Chadwick, 8th Grade 
Lucy S. Smedley, 7th Grade 
Elvira Johnson, 6th Grade 
Syndonia Roberts, 6th Grade 
Elsie G. Boyt, 5th Grade 
Sue F. Heidelbaugh, 5th Grade 
Elizabeth Moore, 4th Grade 
Jessie Mackey, 4th Grade 



Maiian Baker, 3rd Grade 
Pauline Hyde, 3rd Grade 
Helen Gyger, 2nd Grade 
Emily Hibberd, 2nd Grade 
Frances Moore, 1st Grade 
Margaret Custer, 1st Grade 
Roberta Brewster, Kindergarten 
Anna Dennisson, Kindergarten 



FACULTY FOR 1918-19 



HIGH SCHOOL 



Walter L. Philips, Principal 

H. Emilie Groce, Special Assistant 

Edna Hall, History 

Eliza. S. Lyster, English 

Grace A. Filler, English 

Mary L. Stritzinger, Mathematics 

Ruth S, Bishoff, Latin 

Nettie M. Bender, Chemistry and 

Domestic Science 
Frances E. Cowdrick, French 
Roy F. Kraber, Commercial 

Branches 



Mildred B. Hoopes, Mathematics and 

French 
Irvin W. Ziegler, Science 
Henrietta M. Smedley, Music 
Gertrude S. Chapman, Physical 

Training 
John E. Wolf, Physicial Training 
Helen E. Taylor, Arts 
Vincent B. Prendeville, Drawing and 

Manual Arts 
J. C. Daisy Hoist, Secretary 



Grades 1918-19 



Maud H. Thompson, 8th Grade 
Lucy S. Smedley, 7th Grade 
Georgia E. Cubbler, 7th Grade 
Rae F. Baldwin, 6th Grade 
Mary E. Pugh, 6th Grade 
Emilie E. Peters, 5th Grade 
Sue F. Heidelbaugh, 5th Grade 
Elizabeth Moore, 4th Grade 
Mrs. Bella C. Graham, 4th Grade 

*Died February 15 ; position filled by Mrs. 



Marian Baker, 3rd Grade 
Pauline Hyde, 3rd Grade 
Emily Hibberd, 2nd Grade 
^Margaret Willis, 2nd Grade 
Margaret S. Custer, 1st Grade 
Frances Moore, 1st Grade 
Roberta Brewster, Kindergarten 
Anna Dennisson, Kindergarten 

Ewald. 



SCHOOL ACTIVITIES DURING WAR TIME 



Inspired not only by our natural feeling of patriotism, but 
spurred on by the fact that so many of those dear to us were 
offering their lives in this noble effort to purify the world, 
teachers and pupils alike considered it a privilege to do all they 
could to help in the great work. Nothing was too much to do for 
"our boys." The School Board, also, wishing to attain to the 
greatest possible efficiency in war activities, early in 1918 
appointed a teacher to systematize and take charge of war and 
relief work. 

During the eighteen months of the war the school made the 
following articles: 

Sweaters 50 

Pairs of socks 65 

Mufflers 5 

Wristlets 20 

Afghans for hospitals 18 

Pieces of infants' clothing 100 

Garments collected and sent to the Belgians 225 

Pairs of sock forms made in shop 30 

Articles contributed to the linen shower for the boys in 

France, November 1 500 

Magazines and books sent to the convalescent hospitals. . . . 320 

Checker boards and parchesi boards 30 

The boards were made in our art rooms and the checkers 
were made in the manual training shop from discarded broom 
handles. 

The public library, an adjunct of the school, sent to the hos- 
pitals 1500 books. 

Each room in the school was interested in some kind of war 
work : smoothing out tinfoil, snipping, knitting, sewing or gath- 
ering jokes and making joke books for the soldiers; while the 
boys of the High School used their spare time in collecting 
papers, and weighing and tying them in twenty-pound bundles 
ready for sale. 

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The head of the Commercial Department was always ready 
to have our notices printed and have any typewriting done that 
was necessary. In May, 1918, several of our boys were allowed 
to leave school to work on farms ; the school kept in touch with 
their work, and if satisfactory the pupils were allowed to go on 
with their classes. 

During the summer vacation of 1918, owing to the pressure 
of work in textile mills, where khaki cloth was made, the Board 
allowed the use of the manual-training rooms for the specking of 
cloth, thus enabling the mills to increase their output. 

In the autumn of 1918 we collected thirty bushels of peach 
stones, which were sent to the proper place for the manufacture 
of gas masks. We planted about five hundred black walnuts, in 
answer to the appeal from the Government, saying that on 
account of black walnut being used for the manufacture of gun 
stocks, this species of tree would be entirely depleted unless 
something were done to replenish the supply. 

The art rooms made hundreds of posters in the interest of 
every war function, viz.; Liberty Loans, War Saving Stamps, 
Thrift Stamps, Red Cross, Y. M. C. A., saving food, collecting 
salvage, rummage sales, etc. Two rummage sales were held 
which netted us over one hundred dollars. 

Ninety-five per cent of our pupils were members of the Red 
Cross; most of them senior members, the rest junior members; 
while many joined both organizations. All of our teachers were 
not only members of the Red Cross, one being a life member, but 
were active in some phase of war work outside of school hours. 
During the ''flu" epidemic in October, 1918, several teachers gave 
their services as nurses, school being closed that month. 

One teacher had a war garden during the summers of 1917 
and 1918, clearing $455. This sum she gave to the Red Cross 
and Y. M. C. A. Many of the pupils planted gardens for their 
own profit, thus increasing the food supply. In May, 1917, we 
gave $50 to the Red Cross. In June of the same year, $100 to 
the Y. M. C. A. At Christmas time, 1918, we sent $220 to the 
Belgian children; during January, 1919, we sent $100 to the 
French children; previous to this we had given $50 to the 
Armenians. To the Salvation Army drive, we contributed 
$142.18. To the Soldiers Memorial Fund we gave $67. 

From the statistics compiled it is found that during the 
summer vacation of 1918, pupils of our school performed 38,152 
hours of work, which resulted in earning the sum of $10,237.67. 

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The membership of the school now owns 13 one-thousand 
dollar bonds; 13 five-hundred dollar bonds; 571 one-hundred 
dollar bonds; 1191 fifty-dollar bonds; 2103 War Savings Stamps; 
3158 Thrift Stamps, making a total value of $147,354.50. 

In our auditorium four mass meetings were held for the 
different Liberty Loans and one for the Victory Loan, with com- 
mittee meetings held bi-weekly during each drive. We had two 
community sings; one mass meeting for the organization of a 
community religious course of study, and one for the purpose of 
deciding on a suitable memorial for our soldiers. 

The committee having charge of Americanization held an 
entertainment in the school, having as entertainers the pupils 
of our school of foreign parentage, and as guests the mothers of 
these children. 

We had four Liberty parades, at each of which we caused 
the town **to sit up and take notice." 

During part of the war we observed the five-minute period 
of prayer at 12 o'clock, asking God's blessing on our men and 
women who were in service. Four-minute speeches were given 
in Assembly by pupils on war topics. 

From the fifth grade up the pupils were taught the following 
American creed: 

I believe in the United States of America as a Gov- 
ernment of the people, by the people, for the people; 
whose just powers are derived from the consent of the 
governed ; a democracy in a republic ; a sovereign nation 
of many sovereign states; a perfect union, one and 
inseparable, established upon those principles of free- 
dom, equality, justice and humanity for which American 
patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. I therefore 
believe it is my duty to my country to love it ; to support 
its Constitution; to obey Its laws; to respect its Flag, 
and defend it against all enemies. 

The lower grades used this pledge: 

A slacker is a person who does not do what his 
country asks him to do. My country asks me 

To save my tablet paper, paper towels, all paper. 

To save light. 

Not waste my food. 

Not to waste my money. 

To attend school and grow big and strong. 

I will not be a slacker. 

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The Flag salute was given very frequently. Thus, from the 
youngest to the oldest, the thoughts, the hopes, the prayers, the 
pride of all was in our greatest contribution — ''OUR BOYS." 

In the following sketches had I been able to get the informa- 
tion from their commanders many deeds of heroism would be 
recorded, but I had to depend mainly on the boys themselves; 
therefore, all the facts that would throw them into the limelight 
were strictly withheld. Their modesty was excelled only by 
their valor. 

But we know that the true record is kept in the book where 
''Only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall 
blame." 



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SECOND DIVISION 



The Marines 



The Heroes of the Belleau Wood. "Fritz'' called them 
"teufel hunden," which is the German for "devil dogs." 





David Lindsay Anderson enlisted in the Marine Corps in 
August, 1918, and received his training at Paris Island, S. C. He 
was in the 389th Company. He was not overseas and received 
his discharge in February, 1919. 



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J. Frederick G. Breen enlisted May 25, 1919. He served 
as drill instructor in the United States Marine Corps, with the 
rank of corporal; was stationed at Paris Island, S. C. Corporal 
Breen qualified as a sharpshooter. 

His company was on its way to the embarkation port when 
the armistice was signed. 

He was discharged February 10, 1919. 



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Walter Talbot Ebrey enlisted October 8, 1919, as a private 
in the Marine Corps. He was in training at Paris Island, South 
Carolina, and qualified as an expert rifleman, February 4, 1919, 
on the rifle range connected with that camp. 



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Harry P. Farren enlisted in May, 1917, in Company K 
13th Regiment, 5th Brigade, U. S. Marines. He received his 
training at Paris Island, S. C, after which he spent one year 
overseas. He qualified as an expert rifleman and received the 
rank of gunnery sergeant. In August, 1919, he received his 
discharge. 



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Photo by De Vaux 



George L. Galbraith enlisted June 2, 1917, in the 84th Com- 
pany of 6th Marines, 2nd Division U. S. A. He received his train- 
ing at Paris Island, S. C., and at Quantico, Va. 

George spent eighteen months overseas, and was in the 
battles of Verdun Sector, Belleau Woods, Soissons, Pont-a-Mous- 
son Sector, Argonne and in the Army of Occupation. He was not 
wounded but received the Croix de Guerre twice, and was twice 
cited in division orders. Since his return home he has received 
another citation for gallantry. He was discharged May 7, 1919. 



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Samuel J. C. Greene, born Jamiarv 2G, 1901; enlisted May 22, 
1917, in the United States Marine Corps Reserves, was stationed at 
Ijoagiie Island. On August loth, was assigned to 59th Company of 
New York, 7th Eegiment, for duty in Cuba. Left League Island, Phila- 
delphia, in August, arriving at Guantananio Bay, Cuba. 

After doing guard duty in Guantananio for two months he was 
transferred to Santiago Hill, and later transferred to San Luis. He 
was awarded an expert rifleman's medal. 

In July, 1918, he was ordered back to Quantico, Va., and assigned 
to the 13th Eegiment, Company E, then being organized by Colonel 
Smedley T. Butler for duty in France. He sailed from Hoboken Septem- 
ber 13th and arrived in Brest, France, September 23, 1918, in the begin- 
ning of the outbreak of epidemic influenza and pneumonia. The 13th 
Eegiment Marines was detailed on special duty at Brest, France, to take 
care of the sick arriving on transports. The Eegiment was cited by the 
commanding officer of port for efficient work in taking care of the sick. 

In November, after the armistice was signed, the Eegiment was 
assigned to patrol duty in Saint Xazaire, later being transferred to 
Nantes. 

On June 15, 1919, he was ordered to Schleswig-Holstein in Northern 
Germanv with the Armv of Occupation, where he is now stationed 
(Julv 20, 1919). 

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Manus Joseph Heinaman enlisted in the 61st Company 
of Marines, November 6, 1918. He was in training at Paris 
Island, after which he was sent to Brooklyn, where he still re- 
mains (September 1st) doing guard duty. 



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William Read Kelly enlisted in the First Marine Aero 
Squadron, U. S. Marine Corps, on January 28, 1917. He was in 
the training camp at Miami, Fla. He did not get overseas, but 
served with the U. S. M. C. coast patrol. 

On December 30, 1918, his discharge was granted. 



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Edward Neall Matsinger enlisted September 3, 1917. He 
was in the Headquarters Company 9th Regiment, 3rd Provisional 
Brigade U. S. Marine Corps. He was encamped at Paris Island, 
S. C, and at Quantico, Galveston, Texas. He is still in service 
(August 15, '19). 



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Wendell Holmes Osborne left Colgate University and 
enlisted in the Marine Reserves May 5, 1917. He was later trans- 
ferred to the 7th Regiment of Marines. From the Philadelphia 
Navy Yard he was sent to Cuba, August 29th. He spent eighteen 
months on that island. First made a corporal and was afterward 
made company clerk. During all his military service, he still 
cherished the idea of getting his degree from Colgate and neg- 
lected no opportunity to gain credits toward that end. In Cuba 
he studied and mastered the Spanish language. He arrived in 
New York en route for home about the middle of January, 1919. 
There he contracted bronchial pneumonia and died January 28th. 
This was the second one of our noble boys of the class of '15 who 
was called upon to give his life that the world might be free 
from autocracy. Happy, good-natured, studious — all who knew 
him felt that had he been spared, a brilliant career was in store 
for him. 

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Photo by De Vaux 



Frank Erwin Wetzel enlisted June 3, 1918. He was in 
Company 146, Thirteenth Regiment U. S. Marines. He was in 
training at Paris Island, S. C, and Pensacola, Florida. He was 
discharged in February, 1919. 



Reece Lewis enlisted in August, 1917, in the 94th Company, 
7th Regiment of Marines. He spent nearly two years in Cuba, 
and was discharged July 5, 1919. 



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THE FAMOUS 28th DIVISION 

Called by General Pershing "Iron Men." 

Suffered heavier casualties than any other division 
outside of the Regular Army. 

Chief of Staff, P. E. Marsh says : ''All Americans 
are proud of the 28th Division." 




Walter C. Baker enlisted September 5, 1918, in the 112th 
Ambulance Corps, 28th Division U. S. A. After being trained 
at Camp Greenleaf, Ga., he spent six months and three days 
overseas, and was discharged May 21, 1919. 



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William H. Biester, Jr., enlisted in Philadelphia, June 28, 
1917, in Company 1, 103rd Engineers, 28th Division, U. S. A. 
December 5, 1918, he was transferred to the headquarter's 
detachment. He was encamped at Mt. Gretna, Pa., from August 
13 to August 20, 1917, and at Camp Hancock, August 22, 1917, 
until May 11, 1918. He left New York May 18, 1918; reached 
Liverpool, England, May 31 ; Calais, France, June 1, 1918. He 
was rated master engineer, junior grade. Engineer Biester was 
in the following engagements: Champagne-Marne, Aisne- 
Marne, Fismes Sector, Oise-Aisne, Meuse-Argonne, Thiaucourt 
Sector. 

He left St. Nazairre, France, April 20, 1919, and arrived in 
New York April 30, 1919. 



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Charles Anthony Brockmeyer enlisted July 23, 1917, in 
Battery A, 108th Artillery, 28th Division, U. S. A. He was in 
training at Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga., and spent one year 
overseas. He was in the battles of Fismes-Vesle (sector) , Oise- 
Aisne offensive, Meuse-Argonne offensive, and Ypres-Lys offen- 
sive. He was also in Belgium. May 14, 1919, he was discharged. 



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William A. Brockmeyer enlisted in the N. G. P. February 
3, 1913. Re-enlisted February 3, 1916. He was with the old 
First Regiment on the Mexican border, and after their removal 
to Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga., in September, 1917, he became 
part of the Headquarters Company, 109th Infantry, 28th Divi- 
sion U. S. A He went overseas in May, 1918, and saw service 
there for ten months. He was in the following battles : Meuse- 
Marne, Vesle, Aisne and Argonne. In the Argonne engagement 
he was wounded, and on the night of October 7, 1918, he was 
gassed and lay on the battlefield until the next morning. 

After spending several months in hospitals, both in France 
and in America, he was discharged July 17, 1919. He received 
the rank of sergeant major. 



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Thomas Howard Brown enlisted May 31, 1904, same month 
and day in 1907, 1910, 1913, 1916. First in the First Pennsyl- 
vania Infantry, later known as the 109th Infantry, 28th Division, 
U. S. A. He was encamped about Philadelphia on guard duty 
during the summer of 1917. The first of September he went to 
Camp Hancock, Ga. From there he came to Camp Upton for 
departure overseas. He was overseas exactly one year, reaching 
America May 3, 1919. 

Sergeant Brown was in the following engagements: Fifth 
German offensive, July 14, 1918, to July 19, 1918; advance on 
Ourcq and Vesle, July 28, 1918, to September 7, 1918; Meuse- 
Argonne, September 26, 1918, to October 7, 1918; Thiacourt 
Sector, October 15, 1918, to November 11, 1918. He received his 
latest discharge May 7, 1919, but he re-enlisted for one year in 
the Regular Army. 

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Photo by Dc Vaux 



Nelson Joseph Browne enlisted April 9, 1917. He was 
in Company E 111th Regiment, 28th Division, U. S. A. He 
received his training in America at Camp Hancock, Georgia; 
went overseas the beginning of May, 1918, and remained there 
ten months, and was engaged in active service in the Marne 
(Right of Chateau Thierry) to Fismes (on the Vesle River) . He 
was wounded August 9, 1918, in the battle at Fismes. He served 
with a battalion scout as sniper on the Marne and later as 
company runner, in which capacity he was wounded. 



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Photo by De Vaiix 

Stephen D. Brown enlisted July 13 (Friday) in Company 
E, 103rd Engineers, 28th Division, U. S. A. 

Corporal Brown was trained at Camp Hancock and landed 
in France June 1, 1918. He served with his Division as follows : 
June 28th to September 8th on the Marne and Vesle River 
fronts; from September 23rd till October 10th in the Argonne 
Forest; October 20th to November 11th on a quiet front opposite 
Metz. 

He was never wounded. 

After the armistice was signed he was elected to attend the 
University of Toulouse, taking a four months' course in science. 
This course ended June 30, and after a few weeks spent in sight- 
seeing. Corporal Brown returned home. 



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Walter Carlile enlisted a few days after war was de- 
clared, in April, 1917. He was in the Headquarters Company 
of the First Regiment N. A. G. He trained at Camp Hancock 
and was detailed for overseas service, but a short time before 
he was to sail his heart was found to be unfit for foreign 
warfare and for many weeks he was detained at Camp Upton, 
N. Y. Finally, after many examinations and much pleading on his 
part, he was transferred to the Military Police Force and sailed 
to France in July, 1918. The following October he was promoted 
to the rank of corporal in the 314th Company of Military Police. 
Later while with the Army of Occupation he contracted pneu- 
monia, from which he died December 20, 1918 in Echternach, 
Luxembourg. As I remember Walter, his most prominent char- 
acteristic was that he was always ready to do the necessary duty, 
without asking the reason why. 

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Leslie Robert Craig enlisted March 28, 1917. He was in 
the Machine Gun Company of the 109th Infantry, 28th Division, 
U. S. A. Leslie received his training at Camp Hancock, Georgia, 
after having spent a few months on guard duty about Phila- 
delphia. 

He was overseas one year and three days, and was engaged 
in the Battles of Chateau-Thierry and Fismes. In each of these 
battles he was wounded : on July 18 he was wounded in the ankle 
at Chateau-Thierry, and later received an arm wound at Fismes, 
September 4th. 

Private Craig was discharged May 15, 1919. 



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Photo bx Dc Vait.v 



Walter James Lyster enlisted September 4, 1917, in Com- 
pany D, 111th Regiment, 28th Division. He received his train- 
ing at Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga. 

Walter spent one year overseas, and was engaged in the 
Argonne and Chateau Thierry drives and also in the Siege of 
Metz. 

He was not wounded but received for his bravery the 
Croix de Guerre. 



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Garrett Magens enlisted in the spring of 1917 with the 
old Second Regiment N. G. P., now the 108th Artillery, 28th 
Division, U. S. A. He was in Battery E. During the summer 
of 1917, he, with his regiment, was encamped at Glan Side, near 
Philadelphia. 

He went overseas in May, 1918, and returned in May, 1919, 
with the one section of the 28th Division that was not home in 
time to take part in the great parade. May 15th. He was in all 
the battles fought by the 28th Division from July to the signing 
of the armistice, nevertheless he returned home without a wound. 



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George McConaghy enlisted July 15, 1917. He served in 
Battery C 108th Field Artillery, 28th Division U. S. A. He re- 
ceived his training at Camp Hancock, Georgia, was made a cor- 
poral; and was overseas from May 19, 1918 until May 14, 1919. 
He was in the following battles : — Aisne-Marne defensive, August 
14 to 27; Advance on Ourcq-Vesle Rivers August 28 to Sep- 
tember 9th; Meuse-Argonne offensive, September 26 to October 
10; Ypres-Lys offensive, October 31 to November 11, 1918. 

Corporal McConaghy received his discharge at Camp Dix, 
May 24, 1919. 



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Raymond McNamee was a member of the old First Regi- 
ment N. G. P. on the Mexican border. When the World War 
broke out he, with the rest of the regiment, were first encamped 
about Philadelphia, then were sent to Camp Hancock, Georgia, 
where his regiment became the 109th in the 28th Division 
U. S. A. He went overseas in May, 1918, and with the rest of 
the "Iron Men" saw a great deal of action all summer. 

He did not tell that he received any medals or honors but if 
saving the life of a wounded comrade under fire is worthy of a 
medal, Raymond McNamee should have at least two. 



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John Stuart Ogilvie Pusey enlisted during the spring of 1917 
as a private in the Second Pennsylvania Field Artillery. He left the 
sophomore class at Yale at that time. The Second Pennsylvania Field 
Artillery was afterward made the 108th Field Artillery, U. S. A. Private 
Pusey was appointed sanitation officer of his Battery. He was a member 
of Battery F, 108th Field Artillery, 28th Division, U. S. A. 

He received his training first in Yale Battery at Tobyhanna in 1916; 
was on the border during the Mexican trouble, and at Camp Hancock. 
While at Hancock he was detailed to study motor tractors at Clintonville 
and Peoria, Illinois ; here he received his promotion to first lieutenant in 
January, 1918. The previous September he had been made a second 
lieutenant. He was made quartermaster in charge of train from Camp 
Mills on way overseas. 

Lieutenant Pusey went overseas in May, 1918, with the 28th Divi- 
sion; was then transferred to the 91st Division, but was afterward put 
back into the 28th, and was with this Division from the engagement at 
Chateau Thierry until the armistice was signed. 

While overseas he received a military appointment to the University 
of Eennes, Eeunes, France. As, throughout his course in school and 
college, he had excelled in language, he now elected a four months course 
in Classical French. He expects to return to Yale to finish his course. 

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Paul F. Quinlan, Jr., enlisted April 25, 1917, in Company 
B, 103rd Engineers, 28th Division, U. S. A. He was a private in 
the Engineers' Reserve Officers' Training Camp at Camp Lee, 
Virginia, from January 2, 1918, to April 22, 1918. He had also 
been stationed at Camp Meade, Maryland, and Camp Hancock, 
Georgia. At Camp Lee he received his commission as first lieu- 
tenant of engineers. From Camp Lee, Lieutenant Quinlan was 
sent to Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, with the 62nd Engi- 
neers. He was overseas eleven and one-half months, during 
which time he served as adjutant with the 62nd Engineers, build- 
ing and operating railroads in France. He reached America in 
June, 1919. 



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Francis Eyan enlisted in May, 1917, in the Ambulance Corps and 
was sent to the training school at Allentown, April 3, 1918 ; he was 
transferred to Camp Hancock and was placed in Company C, 103rd 
Ammunition Train, 28th Division, U. S. A. May 18, 1918, he embarked 
from Camp Mills for overseas. Soon after reaching France, active service 
began. Practically all ammunition was hauled at night, frequently 
under shell fire, and the use of lights was forbidden- The strictest atten- 
tion was required in order to avoid shell-holes and other obstacles. In 
addition to this, his company transported hospitals and hauled salvage. 
Frequently drivers and servers were out on trucks forty-eight hours at a 
stretch. This work continued until the armistice was signed, after 
which they were engaged in hauling salvage. Finally the company 
boarded the S. S. Liberator, and, on the evening of April 24th set sail 
for the States. They reached Philadelphia May 7th and were taken to 
Camp Dix, Wrightstown, X. J., to remain there until the 28th Division 
paraded in Philadelphia, May 15th, after which they were mustered out 
of service. Francis was made a corporal in March, 1919. 

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Daniel Meyers Sheppard enlisted June 5, 1917. He was a 
member of Company C, 103rd Ammunition Train, 28th Division, 
U. S. A. 

For training, he was encamped at Allentown, Pa. and at 
Augusta, Ga. He spent one year overseas and was in the follow- 
ing drives: Advance on Ourcq and Vesle Rivers, August 9 to 
September 9, 1918 ; Meuse-Argonne Forest offensive, September 
26 to October 23, 1918; Thiacourt Sector, October 25 to Novem- 
ber 11, 1918. He served with the French Anti- Aircraft Service 
at Vigneulles, France, also in Lorraine, and received French 
commendation for said service, from the commanding officer of 
the trench units of Anti-Aircraft Service. Commendation is 
dated December 18, 1918. He also boasts a regimental citation 
for duties discharged under fire and trying circumstances. For 
a time he was attached to the 33rd Division U. S. A. in the Army 
of Occupation taking troops through part of Belgium and 
Luxemburg to the town of Mersch, Luxemburg. He reached 
home un wounded and was discharged May 20, 1919. 

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In August, 1916, Richardson Shoemaker, Jr., enlisted in 
Company C, 1st Regiment of the Pennsylvania National Guards, 
then stationed at El Paso, Texas. When the World War was 
declared in April, 1917, Company C was given guard duty in and 
about Philadelphia, encamping most of the summer at Griffith's 
Park, Lansdowne. In September they were taken to Camp 
Hancock, Augusta, Ga., and remained there in training until 
April, 1918. While there, the Pennsylvania National Guards 
were made part of the 28th Division of the U. S. A. and the First 
Regiment became the 109th. While at Hancock, private Shoe- 
maker was made a wagoner in the Supply Company. He em- 
barked for overseas May 1, 1919, and was in active service during 
June, July, August and September. On the 26th of September 
in the Argonne he was seriously wounded. He remained in 
France in hospitals until January 10, 1919, when he was sent 
home. Previous to being wounded he had had seven horses 
killed. 

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Photo by De Vaiix 



Kenneth Caillard Stier enlisted June 25, 1917. He was a 
member of Company B, 103rd Eegiment of Engineers, 28th Division, 
TJ. S. A. He was made a first-class private and trained at Camp Meade, 
helped in the surveying for this camp and was taught military tactics 
and engineering. From Meade, he was sent to Hancock about the first 
of September, joining the rest of the regiment and remaining there until 
sent overseas the beginning of May. He embarked on the Canadian 
ship Megama and was fortunate enough to sight two submarines off the 
Irish coast and to come off safe after a little scrimmage- 
Private Stier was overseas from May 19, 1918, until May 1, 1919, 
and was engaged in the following drives : Chateau Thierry, June 28 to 
July 13, 1919; 5th German offensiv-e, July 14 to 27, 1918; Ourcq and 
Yesle, July 28 to September 9, 1918 ; Meuse-Argonne, September 26 to 
October 9, 1918; Thiacourt Sector, October 15 to November 11, 1918- 
He was not wounded and was discharged from Camp Dix, May 16, 1919. 
In the various engagements during his overseas campaign, his work 
consisted in digging trenches ; putting up barbed wire entanglements ; 
fighting with the infantry; building bridges; destroying German field 
mines; building roads, etc. He was twice "over the top." 

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James Eeeves Stokes^ Jr., was a member of Company C, First 
Eegiment of the old Pennsylvania X. G., afterward made the 109th 
Infantry, 28th Division, U. S. A. He enlisted March 29, 1917, the day 
following the President's order for the mobilization of the National Guard. 

Company C did guard duty at Schuylkill Arsenal, Philadelphia, 
and P. R. E. bridge at Gray's Ferry, from April 2, 1917 until July 15th, 
same year, when they w^ere relieved by the New York jST. G. Jnly 25th 
they left for Griffith Park, Lansdowne, and stayed there until September 
11, 1917, when they left for Camp Hancock, Ga. Private Stokes was made 
mess sergeant August 20, 1917. They reached Camp Hancock September 
14, 1917. In October he was relieved of his duties as mess sergeant and 
went into the line as a corporal. 

Corporal Stokes received a fractured rib while training and was 
marked for home service. He left Camp Hancock with the Regiment 
April 20, 1918 on its way overseas, by way of Camp Upton, L. I., reach- 
ing this camp April 23rd. April 27th he was transferred to the 13th 
Co. 152nd Depot Brigade. In October 1918, he was made a sergeant 
and passed his examination for an officers' training school, which he was 
to enter in November, but the signing of the armistice interfered. He 
was discharged from Camp Upton January 7, 1919, after twenty-one and 
one-half months service. He was- acting first sergeant when discharged. 

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Corporal Carlile Taylor was in the 109th Infantry at 
Camp Hancock, Ga., but was discharged from there in Novem- 
ber, 1917, on account of physical disability. 



51 




George Russell Taylor enlisted in September, 1917. He 
was trained at Camps Meade and Hancock. He was a member 
of the 103rd Sanitary Train in the 109th Ambulance Company of 
the 28th Division U. S. A. He was overseas one year and was 
engaged in the Fifth German offensive, the advance on Argonne 
and Vesle River, and Thiaucourt. He was not wounded and was 
discharged May 21, 1919. 



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James T. Taylor, Jr., enlisted March 25, 1917. He was in 
the Headquarters Company, 109th Regiment, 28th Division, 
U. S. A. He received his training at Camp Hancock, Ga. Cor- 
poral Taylor spent eleven months overseas and was in the Bat- 
tles on the Marne, the Vesle River and in the Argonne. In the 
Argonne Forest he was wounded. After spending some time in 
the hospital, he returned to America and was discharged April 9, 
1919. 



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Walter Ellsworth Trout enlisted August 20, 1917, in 
Company M, 111th Infantry, 28th Division, U. S. A., formerly 
Pennsylvania National Guards. He was trained at Camp 
Hancock, Augusta, Georgia, until he went overseas, the begin- 
ning of May, 1918. He spent one year in France and was in the 
following engagements: Fifth German offensive. Advance on 
the Ourcq and Vesle Rivers, Meuse-Argonne offensive, Thiau- 
court Sector. On August 11, 1918, he was wounded in the chest 
by a machine-gun bullet. This was during the advance on the 
Ourcq and Vesle Rivers. The 111th Infantry has seven stream- 
ers on its standard for citations. 



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George Peirce Warren enlisted September 29, 1917. He 
was in the 113th Ammunition Train, 28th Division, U. S. A. 
He received his training at Camp Shelby, Miss., and v^as com- 
missioned as a first lieutenant. Lieutenant Warren served nine 
months overseas, acting as a dental surgeon. He is still in 
service (July 30, 1919). 



James Boner v^as in the old Sixth Regiment, N. G. P., and 
was encamped near Lansdowne during the summer of 1917. In 
September of that year, he went to Camp Hancock, and from 
there to France. I was unable to locate him after the war. 



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Captain Rutherford McA. Warren enlisted February 9, 
1918, in the N. G. P., which, after war was declared, was made 
part of the U. S. Army. He was in Company C, 109th Infantry, 
28th Division, U. S. A. During the Mexican trouble he served 
on the border; then after the declaration of the United States 
to participate in the world war, he was encamped in the vicinity 
of Philadelphia until September 1917, when his regiment was 
sent to Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga. Here they were in train- 
ing until May 1, 1918, when they went overseas. Captain Warren 
was overseas just one year and was engaged in the following 
battles : Champagne-Marne defensive, July 15 to 18 ; Aisne- 
Marne offensive, July 18 to August 6 ; Meuse-Argonne offensive, 
September 26 to November 11, 1918. He was not wounded, and 
says the greatest honor he received was the chance to get home. 
Captain Warren was discharged May 27, 1919. 



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Photo by De Vaux 



Paul Leroy Wetzel enlisted April 3, 1917. He was in Com- 
pany H, 111th Regiment, 28th Division, U. S. A. He received his 
military training at Camp Hancock, Georgia. He was overseas 
one year and took part in the following engagements: Fifth 
German offensive, July 14, 1918; Advance on Ourcq and Vesle 
Rivers, July 28, to Sept. 7, 1918; Meuse-Argonne Sept. 26 to Oct. 
9, 1918; St. Mihiel, Oct. 15 to Nov. 11, 1918. He was gassed 
August 15, 1918, at Fismes. Returning home, he was discharged 
May 4, 1919. 



57 




Franklin Broadhead Wright enlisted May 23, 1917. He 
was in Company E, 103rd Engineers, 28th Division, U. S. A. 
He was in training at Camp Hancock until he was discharged 
October 5, 1917. 



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Haviland Wright enlisted May 23, 1917, in Company E, 
103rd Engineers, 28th Division, U. S. A. He was in training- at 
Camp Hancock, until he was discharged from the army, May 28, 
1918, to enter the U. S. Military Academy at West Point. He 
entered the Academy June 14, 1918, but returned home February 
3, 1919, on leave pending the acceptance of his resignation. 



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Paul S. Wright enlisted July 14, 1917. He was in Com- 
pany E, 103rd Engineers, 28th Division, U. S. A. He was trained 
at Camp Hancock and spent one year overseas. He was in the 
fifth German offensive, Meuse-Argonne offensive and Thiaucourt- 
Metz. Private Wright first enlisted in the Naval Reserve April 
10, 1917; was transferred at his own request to the U. S. Army, 
1st Regiment Engineers, N. G. P., this beame the 103rd Engi- 
neers, U. S. Army, on July 14, 1917. He was discharged May 
16, 1919. 



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THE 79th DIVISION 



''The Heroes of Montfaucon" 



Named the Liberty Division, and Awarded, by the French, 

The Lorraine Cross. 




George N. Archambault enlisted May 27, 1918 in Company 
M, 314th Regiment, 79th Division U. S. A. 

He received his training at Camp Meade and spent ten 
months overseas. He was in the following engagements : Hill 
No. 304, September 13-25; Meuse-Argonne offensive, September 
26-30; Troyon Sector, October 8-26; Meuse Argonne offensive, 
October 28-November 11, 1918. 

He returned home unwounded, notwithstanding the fact that 
he was "over the top" nine times. 



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Photo bv Dc Vaiix 



Arthur Verrall Davenport, of Greenwood Avenue, en- 
listed September 4, 1917, in Company A 304th Field Signal Bat- 
talion, in the 79th Division, U. S. A. 

He was at Camp Meade, Md., until July 15, 1918, when he 
went overseas. 

He was engaged in the following battles: Sector ''Cote 
304," September 13 to 25, 1918; Meuse Argonne offensive, Sep- 
tember 26 to October 2 ; Troyon Sector, October 6 to 25 ; Meuse 
Argonne, October 28 to November 11. He returned home 
unscratched. 



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Paul De Negre enlisted in May, 1917. He was in Company 
H, 316th Regiment, Infantry, 79th Division, U. S. A. At Camp 
Meade he was appointed an artificer of his company. He sailed 
overseas in July, 1917. In the last letter his mother received 
from him he expressed himself as pleased with conditions, and 
showed that he was taking a keen interest in, and making a close 
observation of construction work, comparing American and 
foreign methods and materials. Before entering the service he 
was a teacher of manual training in the Brighton School, Atlan- 
tic City. Private De Negre died October 15, 1918, of pneumonia, 
in the hospital at Mesves-Nevers, France. He and Lieutenant 
Wunderlich were in the same Division. 



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Arthur Douthwaite enlisted May 28, 1918, in Company A 
314th Infantry, 79th Division U. S. A. He was stationed at 
Camp Meade, Md., for training, after which he spent ten months 
overseas. He was in the following drives : Sector 304 defensive, 
September 13 to 28, 1918; Meuse-Argonne offensive (Mont- 
faucon) September 26 to 30 inclusive; Troyon Sector defensive, 
October 8 to 26 inclusive; Grande Montagne, October 28 to 
November 11, 1918, inclusive. Arthur voices the general senti- 
ment when he says : "When we started for the front things began 
to happen, and the first time we were bombed it nearly scared us 
all to death." Encountering German airplanes, crowding into 
shell holes already filled, panics caused by fake cries of "Gas," 
were some of the incidents to prevent life in France from being 
dull. He was discharged May 30, 1919. 



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Robert Pusey Garrett enlisted September 18, 1917, in the 
Headquarters Troop of the 79th Division, U. S. A. He received 
his training at Camp Meade, and spent eleven months overseas. 
He was in the following engagements: Sector 304 (defensive), 
September 13 to 25, 1918; Meuse-Argonne offensive (Mont- 
faucon), September 26 to 30, 1918; Troyon Sector (defensive), 
October 8 to 26, 1918 ; Grande Montagne, October 28 to Novem- 
ber 11. He was discharged June 5, 1919. 



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Owen Thomas Kerr enlisted September 19, 1917. He was 
a member of the 316th Ambulance Company, 304th Sanitary 
Train, 79th Division, U. S. A. He received his training at Camp 
Meade, Md., and was sent ''overseas" in July, 1918. Owen saw 
active service in the Meuse-Argonne, but was not wounded, and, 
returning home, he was discharged June 11, 1919. 



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Thomas J. McConaghy enlisted April 4, 1918. He was a 
member of Company A, 304th Signal Battalion, 79th Division 
U. S. A. He received his training at Camp Meade, Md., and was 
overseas from July 7, 1918 until May 28, 1919. He was in the 
following battles: Sector Cote 304, September 13 to 25, 1918; 
Meuse-Argonne offensive, September 26 to October 1 ; Troyon 
Sector, October 6 to 25; Meuse-Argonne offensive, October 29 
to November 11, 1919. 

He was discharged from Camp Dix, May 30, 1919. 



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Walter L. McNamee (Corporal) enlisted September 21, 
1917, in Company D, 314th Regiment of Infantry, 79th Division, 
U. S. A. He was trained at Camp Meade, after which he spent 
eleven months overseas. He was in the following engagements : 
Sector 304, September 13 to September 25th; Meuse-Argonne, 
September 25th to September 30th; Troyon Sector, October 8th 
to October 26th; Grande Montagne, October 28th to November 
11th. He was twice gassed, once at Argonne and again at Grand 
Montagne. Corporal McNamee was discharged May 30, 1919. 



70 




Edward Francis McShane enlisted May 27, 1918. He 
spent about one month at Camp Meade, Md. He was in Com- 
pany M, 314th Regiment, 79th Division, U. S. A. He went over- 
seas early in July and was with his company until he died, 
January 26, 1919. His death was from spinal meningitis. He 
was in the following engagements : Hill 304, September 13 to 25 ; 
Meuse-Argonne offensive, September 26 to 30 ; Troyon Sector 8, 
October 26; Meuse-Argonne offensive, October 28, to November 
11, 1918. He was an automatic gunner and was in line for cor- 
poral. He had been over the top several times. As a boy, 
Edward was energetic, always anxious to improve himself. 



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Bernard Schwartz took the oath of allegiance, September 
18, 1917. He served in the 316th Field Hospital, 304th Sanitary 
Train, 79th Division U. S. A. He received his training at Camp 
Meade, and then spent six months overseas. He was engaged in 
the first phase of the Argonne Drive and there received wounds 
from the effects of which he is still in the hospital (July 30, 1919) . 



n 




Kennard Skilling was drafted February 23, 1918. He 
went to Camp Meade February 25th and joined the 304th Trains 
Headquarters, Military Police, in the 79th Division. He sailed 
for France July 10th, landing July 21st. He served in the 
Argonne Sector, 304 ; in the Troyon Sector and the Grande Mon- 
tagne Sector of the Argonne-Meuse. He came home and was 
discharged June 5, 1919, without a scratch. 



72^ 




Alphonzo Sproul, Jr., enlisted May 5, 1912, in Company 
C, 1st Pennsylvania Infantry. He was discharged May 5, 1915, 
but two weeks later re-enlisted. He attended an officers' train- 
ing camp at Fort Niagara from May until August, 1917, inclu- 
sive. In August he was discharged to accept his commission as 
second lieutenant, and served in a machine gun company of the 
316th Infantry, 79th Division, U. S. A. 

Lieutenant Sproul was at Camp Meade from September, 
1917, until July, 1918, when he went overseas. He spent eight 
months in Europe and was in the Argonne-Meuse offensive, 
where he was both gassed and shell-shocked. 

As a sergeant, Lieutenant Sproul served with the First Penn- 
sylvania Infantry on the Mexican border in 1916, and at the out- 
break of the World War was placed in charge of the training of 
recruits in Philadelphia. 



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Irwin J. Uhl enlisted September 18, 1917, in the Medical 
Corps of the 312th Field Artillery, 79th Division U. S. A. He 
was in training at Camp Meade, Md., until he went overseas, 
where he remained eleven months, but was not in battle. Return- 
ing to America, he was discharged June 7, 1919. 



75 




Albert Clinton Wunderlich enlisted in May, 1918. Dur- 
ing the summer of 1917 he was in the training camp at Platts- 
burg. After enlisting he attended the officers' training camp 
at Fort Niagara; here he received his commission as second 
lieutenant. He was then sent to Camp Meade, where he was pro- 
moted to first lieutenant, 316th Infantry, 79th Division. 

In July, 1918, Lieutenant Wunderlich sailed for overseas. 
He was in the Meuse-Argonne campaign, and the Battle of Mont- 
faucon. On September 28, 1918, he was killed in action. 

He had been recommended by his major for promotion to a 
captaincy, but both he and his major made the supreme sacrifice 
the same day. 

Clinton had been graduated from the Lansdowne High 
School in June, 1915. He then spent two years at Williams Col- 
lege. He died at the age of 22 years, beloved and admired by all 
who knew him. The news of his death cast a gloom over the 
school and the town. 

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The American Navy made possible the convoy system. 
Without the convoy system we could not have won the war. 




Robert Franklin Alexander enlisted July 1, 1918, in the 
U. S. Naval Reserve Force. During training he was mostly at 
the Philadelphia Navy Yard and at Pier 19, Philadelphia. He 
says : "My only battles were the daily battle for chow and my 
only wounds were those of my feelings when my repeated 
attempts to get to sea were of no avail. I fulfilled the duties of 
everything, from apprentice seaman to Lieutenant Q. Z., whose 
work I did when said lieutenant was absent — he was nearly 
always absent." 

He was released from active service February 10, 1919. 



79 




Frederick Samuel Balch enlisted in the Navy in April, 
1917. He served on coast patrol and convoy duty until January, 
1919, when he was discharged. 



80 




Walter Buswell Balch enlisted in April, 1917, in aviation 
in the Navy. He was overseas thirteen months. 

On account of his meritorious service he was made an ensign 
in July, 1919. 

He had been a student in Cornell University when the war 
broke out. In June, 1919, the University gave him his degree on 
the credit of his work done overseas. 



81 




George Nicholson Barrett enlisted in the Navy November 
11, 1917. He was in training at Tuckerton, N. J, and at Cape 
May, N. J., until the time of his discharge, January 3, 1919. 



82 




Frederick DuBulo Bostigk enlisted in the U. S. Navy in 
March, 1918. He was in training at the St. Helena Training 
Station, Norfolk, Virginia. 

He enlisted as an apprentice seaman, was made a seaman, 
2nd class, on the U. S. S. Mississippi; operated on a Junior 
Finder, No. 1, turret, also operated a Ford Plotting Machine in 
plotting room. He passed the psychological test on, and was 
transferred to, the U. S. S. Pamlico to prepare for an examina- 
tion for the Officers' Training School, Naval Base, Hampton 
Roads, Virginia. He was made chief boatswain's mate upon 
passing this examination. Later was made midshipman and 
graduated with the rank of Ensign T. U. S. N. 

Ensign Bostick did convoy work to the hundred mile limit, 
and was on active patrol duty during the submarine visitations 
at Diamond Shoals, Va. 

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Alfred Thomas Brown enlisted in the U. S. Navy May 4, 
1917. He was encamped for training at Cape May, N. J.; 
Annapolis, Md. ; Mt. Pleasant, S. C, and Caldwell, N. J. He 
received the promotions to petty officer, second class, and 
gunner's mate. 

He is still in service (July 31, 1919). 



84 




Joseph Francis Brown enlisted in the U. S. Navy May 6, 
1918. He was on U. S. S. Lake Bridge, carrying cargo from 
New York to Cuba and the other West Indies. He was discharged 
April 30, 1919. 



85 




James J. Brown enlisted in the U. S. Navy, August 15, 1917. 
He made six trips overseas in the capacity of second class ship- 
fitter on the U. S. S. De Kalb, anchored at Bordeaux, St. Nazaire 
and Brest. He was discharged June 22, 1918. 




Theodore Frederick Beck enlisted June 25, 1918, in the 
U. S. N. R. F. He was shipped from Pier 19, Philadelphia, to 
Great Lakes Naval Training Station, thirty-eight miles north of 
Chicago, and received training there as a seaman. 

He was sent from Great Lakes to Hampton Roads, Va., on 
a fireman draft, and was there trained to be a fireman, after 
which he was placed in that capacity on the battleship Ken- 
tucky, and went into foreign waters, sweeping for mines. Later 
Fred qualified as a second class engineer, and was permitted to 
wear a machinist mate's rating. 

January 24, 1919, he was placed on the inactive list. 



.87 




Arthur S. Bryan enlisted in the Navy as a seaman May 4, 
1918. He was encamped at Seattle, Washington, until February 
7, 1919, when he received his discharge. 




Clarke Henry Burgoyne enlisted in the Navy April 30, 
1917. He was encamped at Wissahickon Barracks, Cape May; 
Lewes, Delaware, and League Island. He was discharged March 
23, 1919. 



89 




Fred T. Cliffe writes: "I enlisted in the United States Naval 
Eeserve Force April 9 1917, at City Hall, Philadelphia, but it was not 
until June 26, 1917, that I was called into active service. I was then 
sent to the Naval Base at SewelFs Point, Cape May, where I remained 
in training until December. I enlisted as a coxswain, but after taking 
an examination at the training station in December, I was sent aboard 
the "S. P. 5" as a first class boatswain. The "S. P. 5" was a converted 
yacht owned by Disston before she was turned over to the government. 
She was a very nice, comfortable boat, and all the boys were quite well 
satisfied to be members of her crew, as we had a good bunch of boys, good 
officers, good quarters and plenty of good food to eat. When I went 
aboard her, she was frozen in ten inches of ice, which meant we had to 
stay tied up to the dock until the ice broke. This did not happen until 
late in January, and then we started to go on patrol work along the coast. 
We did this work all the rest of the winter, until March, when I was 
transferred to a submarine chaser, and there I had the honor of raising 
"Old Glory" on her the first time. This boat's number was S. C. 341. 

90 



She was 110 feet long, 16 feet wide, and had a crew of twenty-four men 
and two officers. We started for sea in this boat for the first time in 
May, 1918, and went to New London, Connecticut, to get the remainder 
of our outfit. It was early in June when the enemy "subs" started to do 
damage, and from then on until August, we were out day and night 
patrolling the coast from Connecticut to Florida. The life was hard 
and tiresome, and we only got in two small battles in that time, but we 
had a good chance to see some of our own country when we moved from 
port to port and stopped for fuel and provisions. In August we left 
Charleston, S. C, for foreign waters. We had a large convoy, and our 
first stop w^as to be Bermuda. We encountered terrible storms all the 
way. These did us about as much harm as a battle would have done. 
We stayed in Bermuda a short time, and after another hard trip lasting 
nine days, we landed in Ponta Del Gada, Azores. We patrolled around 
there until the armistice was signed. Then in January, 1919, we raised 
our homeward-bound pennant and started south for the good old U. S. A. 
We stopped tn St. Thomas, one of the Danish West Indies, Porto Pica, San 
Domingo, Haiti and Cuba, w^here we were held for further orders. We 
spent some time there, having target practice in Guantanamo Bay with 
the Atlantic fleet. Then after the fleet left we laid around doing very 
little, until one day in April a few of us were told to pack our sea bags 
and get ready to go to Xorfolk, A^irginia, for discharge, which we gladly 
did. It was a wonderful experience, and I was lucky enough to get 
through it all without an injury, and was seasick only once." 



91 




William Dalton enlisted in April, 1917, in the U. S. Naval 
Reserves. He was made a first-class machinist on the U. S. S. 
Edorea and served on sea patrol duty, after receiving his train- 
ing at Cape May, N. J. He was discharged in March, 1919. 



92 




Henry Gilroy Damon enlisted in the U. S. Navy April 16, 
1918. He was in training at the Wissahickon Barracks, Cape 
May, N. J., until he was sent into foreign waters. He landed 
in Brest September 5, 1918. From Brest he went to Cardiff, 
Wales, and aboard the U. S. S. Lake Elizabeth, carried coal 
between England and France for eight months, landing at Brest, 
Granville, Bordeaux, St. Nazaire and Rochefort. His vessel took 
on a Red Cross cargo in St. Nazaire for Roumania relief, stop- 
ping at Gibraltar and Toulon, France ; Athens, Greece ; Salonika 
and Constantinople, Turkey ; Sabatz, Roumania, and then back to 
Gibraltar. He left Gibraltar June 28 for Norfolk, Virginia, 
where he landed July 12, 1919. He was released from active 
service August 13, 1919. 



93 




Edward Halfleigh Davis enlisted in the U. S. Naval Re- 
serve Force, June 12, 1918. 

In America he was encamped in the League Island Navy 
Yard, Phila., Pa. He spent five months overseas and was on 
service in the U. S. Naval Air Station at Panillae, France and in 
the U. S. Naval Aviation Repair Base at Eastleigh, England. He 
was released from active service in February, 1919. 



94 




Reid W. Davis enlisted in the Navy January 1, 1918. He 
was on the U. S. S. Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm, and was stationed 
in Virginia, New York, and the Philadelphia Receiving Station, 
then served on convoy duty through the Azores on the U. S. S. 
Fanning. He was on duty in foreign waters eight months, and 
is now (July, 1919) on transport duty. 



95 




Frank Joseph Eagle enlisted in the U. S. Navy, June 18, 
1918. He was overseas about two months ; was in no engagement, 
and received his discharge December 10, 1918. 



96 




Edwin Eldon Graham Elder enlisted in July, 1918, but 
was not called until September 10th. On that date he went to 
Great Lakes Training Camp, Illinois, but two days later con- 
tracted the "flu" and died September 25th. 

He had planned to do his part in ridding the world of 
autocracy, but God's plans and his plans did not agree. 



97 




Herbert Cowperthwaite English enlisted in the U. S. 
Navy, June 15, 1918. He was stationed at the Philadelphia Navy 
Yard until he was discharged, December 12, 1918. 



98 




Photo bv De Vaitx 



Lewis Price Garrett enlisted in the U. S. Naval Reserve 
Force April 9, 1917. He was in training at the Seamen's Bar- 
racks, League Island, for nearly three weeks and was then placed 
on the U. S. S. Garner, doing mine-sweeping patrol work and 
convoy duty off our coast. He served on this ship for twenty 
months, part of the time as engineering officer. He was then put 
on shore as assistant material engineer of Naval Overseas Trans- 
portation Service, Fourth Naval District, U. S. N. In this 
capacity he served for three months. He was a chief petty officer 
holding the rating of chief machinist mate. He was placed on 
the inactive list April 4, 1919. 



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Photo b\ Dc Vaux 



Stevenson Price Garrett enlisted April 9, 1917 in the 
U. S. Naval Aviation Forces. He was trained at Wissahickon 
Barracks, Cape May, N. J. He spent nine months overseas, and 
while there his service was ignition work on the Liberty aviation 
motor. February 8, 1919, he received his discharge. 



100 




George Lincoln Gilbert, Jr. enlisted April 28, 1917 in the 
U. S. Navy. He was in training in the U. S. Navy Yard, Phila- 
delphia Seamens Barracks, five weeks, and was then put on the 
U. S. mine sweeper. No. 3. He entered service as a second class 
seaman ; August 5, 1917, he was made a first class seaman ; and 
February 26th was made a third class gunners mate. He was dis- 
charged May 8, 1919. 



101 




Robert James Hagerty, M. M. 2c. (Machinist Mate, 2nd 
Class), enlisted in the U. S. Navy May 10th, 1917. He was 
encamped at Cape May and at League Island. Machinist 
Hagerty served on Submarine Chaser No. 211. He was released 
from service February 12, 1919. 



102 




Joseph Harold Hagy enlisted in the U. S. Naval Reserve 
Force, May 8, 1917. He was encamped at Wissahickon Barracks, 
Cape May, N. J., and served in foreign waters on the U. S. C. G. 
Itasca, flagship of mine sweepers. He was discharged May 1, 
1919. 



103 




William J. Haley enlisted in the Navy June 10, 1918. He 
was on the U. S. S. New Mexico in the Atlantic Fleet. He 
received his training at the U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, 
Md., where he was made an ensign. He spent eight months in 
France and at sea. 



104 




Douglas Gillis Holst enlisted April 30, 1917, in the United 
States Naval Reserve. He received his training in the Philadel- 
phia Navy Yard ; Wissahickon Barracks, Cape May, N. J. ; Lrev^es, 
Del., and after being equipped at New London, Conn., he served 
on the high seas from June 20, 1918, to May 10, 1919, and v^as 
twice under enemy submarine fire while in European waters. 
Mechanic Hoist served on Submarine Chaser No. 346, and not- 
withstanding his perilous encounters, reached home unhurt, in 
June, 1919. 



105 




Edgar S. Husband, Lieutenant in the U. S. Naval Reserve 
Force, enlisted April 1, 1917. He was at first stationed along 
the Atlantic coast, but later he spent about eight months in 
foreign waters. Lieutenant Husband had an engagement with a 
submarine in the Bay of Biscay on November 2, 1917, lasting 
forty-five minutes. The submarine is supposed to have been sunk. 

He also had command of a mine sweeper on the French coast, 
(the Hubbard). 

He was discharged March 26, 1918. 



106 




Herbert Worth Jackson enlisted July 22, 1918 in the U. S. 
Naval Reserve Force. He was in the naval training camp at 
League Island until he was discharged from active service April 
4, 1919, subject to the call of the government at any time during 
his four year period of enlistment. 



107 




Charles Crawford Kelly enlisted December 3, 1917. He 
was on duty in the Navy Yard, Philadelphia, and at Tullytown, 
Pa., until he received his discharge June 25, 1919. His rank was 
chief yeoman U. S. Naval Reserve Force. 



108 




William Shetline Kidd enlisted April 21, 1917; he wss 
turned down August 22, 1917, and re-enlisted May 18, 1919. He 
was in the First Regiment Naval Aviation and received his 
training at Gulf Port, Mississippi. Christmas day, 1919, he was 
relieved from active duty. 



109 




Rodney King enlisted in the U. S. Navy April 23, 1917. He 
was first sent to League Island Navy Yard, then to Wissahickon 
Barracks, Cape May N. J. Early in 1918 he put to sea on the 
S. S. Aragon as a midshipman. A few months later he received 
his commission as ensign. He then shipped over on the U. S. S. 
George Washington and served on her for fifteen round trips. 
Outside of meeting some very important people, travelling all 
over Europe, and having a few submarine scares, he said his 
service in the Navy was very monotonous. 




Arthur James Linden mayer enlisted July 5, 1918, in the 
U. S. Naval Reserve Forces. He v^as trained at the U. S. Naval 
Station ''Great Lakes," at Great Lakes, Illinois. He was not 
sent overseas, but became an instructor and taught seamen the 
proper way to handle small boats. He was released from active 
service December 12, 1918. 



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Photo bv Dc Vaiix 



Nelson 0. Lyster, Jr., enlisted in the Navy in August, 1917. 
He was stationed at League Island, New London, Conn., Sub- 
marine Base, Quincy, Mass., and served as a machinist on duty 
on the **0-6" submarine. 

He had many thrilling experiences and was both gassed 
and wounded, but not seriously. 



112 




William S. MoConaghy enlisted in the U. S. Navy, April 5, 
1917, one day prior to the declaration of war. He received his 
training at the Great Lakes Training Camp and on the Battleship 
Missouri. As his enlistment v^as for four years, he is still in 
service. 

He is now with the Pacific fleet. 



113 




Ernest La Place McKenna enlisted in the Navy April 20, 
1918. He was encamped at Wissahickon Barracks, Cape May, 
N. J.; Pier 19, Philadelphia; Philadelphia Navy Yard; and 
Charleston Navy Yard, S. C. On July 26, 1918, he received the 
rating of quartermaster, 3rd class. He was discharged February 
6, 1919. Ernest voices the sentiment of many others when he 
says: *'I am glad I had the experience, but I would not want to 
go through it again." 



114 




Horace Walton McKissick enlisted in the Navy, Novem- 
ber 14, 1917. He was encamped at Wissahickon Barracks, Cape 
May; at Lewes, Delaware and at League Island. 

He was made a gunners mate, third class, and was dis- 
charged in March, 1919. 



115 




Robert P. Mercer enlisted June 16, 1917, in the U. S. Naval 
Reserve Force. He received his training in the U. S. Naval Train- 
ing Camp at Seattle, Washington. He spent five months in sea 
service on the U. S. S. ''Anniston," doing patrol duty and convoy 
duty. In February, 1918, he was promoted to the rank of pay 
clerk. January 24, 1919, his discharge was granted. 



116 




Robert William Stockton Pilling is a midshipman in the 
U. S. Navy. He received this rank from the Naval Academy at 
Annapolis, where he will now continue his studies. 



117 




Albert Cecil Powell enlisted December 3, 1917, in the 
U. S. Navy, in Naval Aviation. While in training, he spent three 
months in the Philadelphia Navy Radio School, one month in 
New York City, and five months on a submarine chaser from 
New London, Conn. He held the rank of chief petty officer, 
U. S. N. He was in active service at Cape May Naval Air Sta- 
tion for six months; during this time he was in the air most 
every day. He patrolled the coast up and down for a distance of 
one hundred and fifty miles, and went out to sea for one hundred 
miles. His flights were mostly made in the Type H-12 navy 
seaplane ; sometimes in dirigible balloons. He was in the initial 
trip made by the navy's dirigible balloon C-2. Five of the planes 
from their station flew over New York City at the time the fleet 
returned from Europe. Chief Petty Oflficer Powell was dis- 
charged February 12, 1919. 



118 




Eugene H. Powell enlisted June 7, 1917, in the U. S. Naval 
Air Service. While in training in America he was at Norfolk, 
Va., and Pensacola, Fla. He spent fourteen months overseas, 
vdth headquarters at Paris, Dunkirk, France, and Zeebrugge 
Mole, Belgium. He was nine months under shell fire and was 
slightly wounded in an air raid at Dunkirk. His company was 
shelled from the front and raided from the sea along the coast. 



119 




Chauncey Venard Roelofs enlisted December 12, 1917. 
He spent about one month at the Wissahickon Training Camp, 
after which he was transferred to the U. S. N. Section Base at 
Cape May, N. J. and made Storekeeper 1st Class U. S. N. R. F. 
Here are kept sub-chaser engine parts. During the submarine 
scare along the Atlantic coast, he was on board the U. S. S. Itasca, 
which acted as a tender to a submarine chaser flotilla. He is still 
in service, but hopes to be a civilian by August 15, 1919. 



120 




William J. Rochford, Q. M. First Class, enlisted in the 
U. S. Naval Reserve Force, November 7, 1917, and was released 
from active service on April 5, 1919. He served three months 
on shore duty and fourteen months at sea, stationed two months 
at Cape May, N. J. ; two weeks at Philadelphia, and two weeks 
at Bay Ridge Barracks, Brooklyn. He served on the U. S. S. 
Emerald, a converted yacht, for ten months, doing convoy duty 
and submarine control. He saw action with U-boats during their 
raids on the Atlantic coast during the summer of 1918. Later 
Sailor Rochford was transferred to the U. S. S. E. L. Doheny 
III, which carried oil from Texas and Mexico to Italy, Austria 
and other ports on the Mediterranean Sea. After four months 
on the Doheny he was transferred to Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. He 
returned home uninjured. 



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GUSTAVUS MuLLER Sproul enlisted in the Navy August 2, 
1914, and re-enlisted August 21, 1918, for a period of one year. 
He was in training in the Norfolk Navy Yard, on the U. S. S. 
Ohio, and later on the U. S. S. Kansas. He was sent to Hampton 
Roads to do neutrality duty when the German ship Prince Eitel 
Frederick was interned. He is now a boatswains mate, first 
class. He spent eleven months in foreign waters. 



122 




De Forrest Willard Skilling enlisted in the Navy April 
2, 1917. He served on the S. S. Beale, M. S. No. 1 ; S. S. Dela- 
ware, S. P. 467. Then he was transferred to Pelham Bay Train- 
ing Station, Long Island. From here he was granted a furlough 
home to await travel orders. While home he became a victim of 
the ''flu" and died October 12, 1918. His loss was keenly felt, 
for he was highly esteemed by all who knew him. 



123 




RussEL Clayton Stokes enlisted March 29, 191S. He was put in 
the training station at Xevvport, R. I. until July 14, 1918. He then 
left Halifax on an English cruiser which convoyed twenty-two transports. 
While but two days out of England, under American destroyer con- 
voy, an attempt was made by four submarines to sink their ship. The 
destroyers finished the submarines. He next landed at Plymouth, Eng- 
land, wdiere he took train for Inverness, Scotland. He was only at Inver- 
ness one week, when he was transferred to his present ship, the S. S. 
Shaw^mut. On this vessel he made thirteen mine-laying trips, and after 
the armistice was signed they sailed to Weymouth, England. December 
l-t, 1918 they were again on their way to U. S, A., b}^ way of the Azores 
and Bermudas. After having a furlough from Boston, they sailed to 
Xorfolk, Virginia, where they took aviation stores, as they were used as 
"Mother Ship" for aviation. Their next port was Guantanamo, Cuba, 
where they stayed with the fleet most of the winter. He says, "As we 
fuelled the planes, wherever they flew we touched, Port-an Prince, Haiti, 
and Kingston, Jamaica." After arriving at Hampton Roads they were 
detailed to go overseas to Lisbon, Portugal, to stand by for the XC-4. 
As soon as she arrived there, thev fuelled her and repaired some small 
details. After the XC-4 left for" Plymouth, England, the U. S. Shaw- 
mut sailed homeward. 

124 




Frank Joseph Sui,livan enlisted in the U. S. Navy in 
October, 1917. He was in training at the Philadelphia Navy 
Yard, and from there sent to an officers' training school in 
Washington, D. C. He remained here only a few days, when he 
passed his examination for ensign and was sent to Akron, Ohio, 
as paymaster for the Goodyear Rubber Co. He remained in 
that capacity until May 1, 1919, when he was discharged. 
One month afterwards he received his commission as junior 
lieutenant. 



125 




Horace Todd Umstead enlisted in the U. S. Naval Reserve 
Porce, March 29, 1918. 

He received his training at the Sun Shipbuilding Company, 
Chester, Pa. During his enlistment he was attached to the offiec 
of the Naval Coast Inspector, which office had cognizance of all 
boats built for the U. S. Navy on a cost plus basis. His rank was 
yeoman first class. Yeoman Umstead was released from active 
service April 26, 1919. 



126 




J. KiRBY Walton enlisted July 13, 1918, but was not called 
until September, 1918. He was in Company D, 2nd Regiment, 
Naval Aviation. He was in training at Gulf Port, Miss., until 
the time of his discharge January 13, 1919. 



127 




John Wesley Ware enlisted February 25, 1918. He was 
in training at League Island and Wissahickon Barracks, Cape 
May. He served on the Submarine Chaser, No. 74, patrolling 
from Bay Head to Cape May, until the armistice was signed, 
after which he was on duty at League Island until he was dis- 
charged, December 6, 1918. 



128 




Richard Mortimer Ware enlisted in the Navy April 7, 
1916. He was first stationed at Key West, and later served on the 
submarine chaser, No. 3. In 1917 the Government sent him 
to Columbia University on account of ability shown in his work. 
His course there covered six months, and he was graduated a 
first class machinist. His work during the war was that of 
patrolling the Southern waters. After the armistice was signed 
he sailed up the Mississippi river, visiting all the large cities in 
that section, soliciting recruits for the Navy. Machinist Ware 
had many thrilling experiences. At one time, together with three 
other boys from their ship, **Vidofner," he volunteered to round 
Cape Hatteras. Their engine gave out when out some distance 
from shore, and after each in turn had tried to remedy the trouble, 
the Captain told them to prepare to leave their vessel and take 
to the water. This they did, but at the last minute the difficulty 
was removed and their engine took them to shore. 

129 




William Lewis Watkin, of North Maple Ave., enlisted in 
the Navy April 27, 1917. He was encamped at Wissahickon Bar- 
racks, Cape May, N. J., and later transferred to the naval base 
at Lewes, Del. From this base he served on the U. S. S. Morrill, 
which was their flagship for mine sweepers. He was released 
from active duty February 8, 1919. 



130 




Henry Thomas Watson enlisted in the U. S. Naval Re- 
serves in June, 1918. He was put in Company 15, Isolation 
Regiment, and was in training at Pelham, N. Y., until October, 
1918. He just reached France and was assigned to battle lines 
when the armistice was signed. He remained overseas until 
June, 1919. 



131 




John Roger Whitehorn left school in 1908 at the age of seventeen 
and took a two years' course on the school ship "Adam' and thus became 
thoroughly grounded in the science of seamanship, both steam and sail. 
His first position on graduating from the "Adams" (third in class) 
was a quartermaster, from which he was rapidly promoted to second, 
first officer, and finally received master papers for all oceans, together 
with pilots licenses for all the larger seacoast cities of the country. 

When the war broke out, he enlisted in the navy as first lieutenant 
and was promptly promoted to lieutenant-commander, which position he 
held until the termination of the war, being in command of the U, S. S. 
"Choctaw," during which service he made frequent trips to and from 
Scotland and other points in the war zone carrying depth bombs, gaso- 
line^ ammunition, etc., for the allies. During his trips he had many 
thrilling experiences and narrow escapes. On one occasion, while sailing 
west, a violent storm, lasting for several days, caused the rivets to give 
way and open up several plates. He was 600 miles off the Irish coast. 

132 



This compelled him to change his course and put back to Scotland, where 
he finally arrived only by the vigorous use of the pumps. 

Lieutenant Commander Whitehorn thus relates one of his 
experiences : 

"We had loaded a heavy cargo for Ponta Del Gada, Azores, for the 
American Naval Base 'No. 3. A few days after leaving New York we 
encountered heavy westerly gales, and as we were loaded down to the 
loading line scales, we were very deep in the water. Besides having the 
holds full of cargo we were given about 2400 cases of gasoline and 250 
depth charges, which were put on the forward deck of the vessel. During 
the heavy weather the gasoline came adrift and for a while there was a 
terrible time on board. We lost all but about 750 cases and the great 
risk was that the depth charges would become loose and go over the side 
and blow us up. Fortunately the lashings held and with plenty of oil 
being used we came out 0. K. At that time heavy seas were washing 
over us and I had the misfortune to be taken overboard, but as we were 
going slowly the next wave threw me back on board my vessel. After 
that trip we went to Norfolk and loaded anywhere from 1200 to 1700 
mines, which were filled with T. N. T. This was a dangerous cargo as 
it meant annihilation, if a torpedo or even a shell should explode on board 
We did not see any submarines but had them all around us, according to 
the wireless warnings we received from time to time. When the channel 
steamer 'Leinster' was torpedoed, I was approximately 13 miles from 
her. I was shortly afterwards promoted to lieutenant-commander and 
had command of my own vessels up to the time of release from active 
duty.'' 



133 



John Buckley was an engign in the U. S. Navy. He 
received his training at Pelham Bay, and was stationed at the 
Brooklyn Navy Yard until the time of his discharge in the early 
summer of 1919. 



Eugene Adolph Joe h man enlisted in the Navy, October 
15, 1915. He was on the U. S. S. Illinois and served at Vera 
Cruz during the Mexican trouble. He is now at Miami, Florida, 
taking care of supplies. He received the rank of chief-petty 
officer-yeoman. He was seriously ill with the flu, but recovered. 
He will get his discharge on January 24, 1920, his 22nd birthday. 



James Joseph Milloy was drafted into service in June, 
1918. He had served in the Navy since early boyhood, but had 
left it about a year previous to his induction into the Army. He 
was in training at Upton, N. Y., about one month, when he was 
sent overseas ; there he was placed in Camp Covington, France, 
At present time (August 1, 1919) he has not returned to America. 



134 




Frederick Albert Bonsal enlisted August 25, 1918, in the United 
States Merchant Marine. He reported at Boston and was assigned to 
the S. S. Meade. This vessel was a transport during the Spanish-Ameri- 
can War, and was sunk off the coast of Florida. It was raised early in 
1915, overhauled at Newport News, and sent to Boston to be used as a 
receiving ship for the Merchant Marine. He was later transferred to 
the S. S. Grovernor Dingley. 

Seaman Bonsai made about eight trips to Maine and in the vicinity 
of Boston-Marblehead, Charleston and Boston. Along the Maine coast 
the ship docked at Boothbay Harbor, North Haven, Eastport, Eockland, 
Camden, Portland and Southport. He was next transferred to the S. S. 
Calvin Austin. Finally his passports were made out and he was recom- 
mended for a ship going to Eio Janeiro and Buenos Ayres. On the 13th 
of November they left Boston for Norfolk. There they did transport 
service, taking troops from the S. S. President Grant and S. S. America. 
Around Thanksgiving they did some recruiting at the great factory at 
Hopewell, Va., owned and operated by Du Ponts. On their return to 
Norfolk it was found that no ship would sail to South America for some 
time, so he was made a first-class yeoman aboard the S. S. Minnesota. 
He was then granted leave in order to be home for Christmas. This was 
afterward made an indefinite furlough and his discharge was issued 
February 13, 1919. 

135 




"I, Arthur Joseph O'Bhikn. t'lilistcd in tlie Merchant ^Marine Service 
on the 1st of August, as a seaman, making my first trip down the coast 
from Philadelphia to Savannah. My experience in this new position was 
indeed unusual. My duties were to wash the decks, shine the brass, help 
to paint the ship, etc., all of which was hard at first, but the thought 
that you were doing something to enable the combined efforts of the 
allied forces directly or indirectly to down the Prussian iron hand, no 
matter how little or how great your task may have been, made it easily 
accomplished. 

"As time passed, I, having been attentive to my duties, was successful 
in l)eing promoted to a chief quartermaster, giving me a rating in the 
Merchant Marine Service as a junior officer. My duties here were the 
steering of the vessel, standing a watch of four hours on and four hours 
off duty while at sea, and a twelve-hour watch when in dock. This, of 
course, was a much more interesting position, as you had the opportunity 
to watch closely, navigation. 

"I was then given my foreign passports and was awaiting a call at 
any time to enter into the Foreign Transport Service when the armistice 

I obtained my release from service."' 

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was signed, shortlv after which 



MISCELLANEOUS 




James Allen enlisted June 1, 1918, in Field Artillery and 
attended the Coast Artillery Officers' Training School at Camp 
Taylor, Kentucky. He also attended the training school at 
Plattsburg, N. Y. He was a member of the 35th Training Bat- 
tery, attached. He was not sent overseas, and was discharged 
December 14, 1918. 



139 




Harold Anderson enlisted June 15, 1918. He was in Motor 
Truck C. N. 495, Motor Supply Train No. 421 in Quartermaster's 
Corps. He was in Camps Lafayette, Easton, Pa., and Joseph E. 
Johnston, Jacksonville, Fla., until September 13, 1918, when he 
sailed for overseas. Corporal Anderson landed in Glasgow, Scot- 
land, then traveled through England and France, carrying 
wounded soldiers. He went with convoy ambulances to the fight- 
ing line on the border of Germany. He was then sent to Roche- 
fort to take food supplies from ships to camps. The German 
prisoners loaded and unloaded the motor trucks — mostly boys of 
fifteen, and old men. After this, he was sent to La Palliss ; there 
the trucks were loaded with stone and taken one hundred miles 
to repair the destroyed roads. Two months ago he was trans- 
ferred to Brest, France, where his work has been conveying the 
dead from the camp to the cemetery. Finally, he contracted 
scarlet fever and is now (August 15, 1919) in Camp Hospital 
No. 33 with that disease. 



140 




Russell Morrell Anderson enlisted May 14, 1918. He 
was in Battery D, 30th Field Artillery, 10th Division, U. S. A. 
He was trained at (1) 4th 0. T. S., Camp Custer, Michigan; 

(2) Training Battery, F. A. C. 0. T S., Camp Taylor, Kentucky; 

(3) Camp Funston, Kansas; (4) 47 Class School of Fire, Fort 
Sill, Oklahoma. 

He was commissioned a second lieutenant of Field Artillery 
at Camp Taylor, Kentucky, August 31, 1918. 

Lieutenant Anderson was discharged March 15, 1919. 



141 




Eugene Thomas Baker enlisted March 21, 1918, in Com- 
pany C, 32nd Engineers, 86th Division, U. S. A. He was in 
training at Camp Grant, Rockford, 111., until May 1, 1918, when 
he was discharged on account of poor physical condition. 



142 




Albert Moore Bartram was a first lieutenant in the Quar- 
termaster's Corps, stationed in Washington, D. C. He enlisted 
September 4, 1918, and was discharged December 2, 1918. 



143 




Noble F. Beacham enlisted September 18, 1918, in Motor 
Truck Company, 557, Command 41, 1st Road Regiment. He was 
encamped for training at Camp Johnston, Florida; Camp Hill, 
Virginia, and Army Base, Norfolk, Virginia. He was discharged 
May 26, 1919. The Ladies Home Journal of November and 
December, 1918, contained two pages each of ^'stickers" appro- 
priate for putting on the outside of letters mailed to our soldiers 
and sailors. These were all designed by Noble Beacham. Thus, 
in this way he performed a very unique patriotic service with his 
artistic talent. 



144 




LuciAN Watson Beatty enlisted in the American Red 
Cross, March 5, 1918. He first had charge of Red Cross work in 
connection with Camp No. 15, located at Codford, England, then 
in military relief work at Winchester, and was there appointed 
director of naval services with headquarters in London. He was 
commissioned lieutenant and advanced to captain. 



145 




GiLLAS Palmer (Bechlar) enlisted the beginning of Janu- 
ary, 1918, from Dallas, Texas, where he has made his home for 
several years. He was in the Quartermaster's Machine Corps at 
Fort Bliss, Texas. The following April he was transferred to 
Camp Jesup, Ga., and placed in Motor Transport Corps Repair 
Shop, Unit 305, and remained there until after the armistice 
was signed. He received his commission as first lieutenant. 



146 




Private John Adair Boyd, of Toronto, Canada, went over- 
seas with the P. P. C. L. I. in 1917. He took part in the Battle 
of Lens, but soon afterward was sent to a hospital in England, 
with trench fever and rheumatism. He did not get out of the 
hospital until after peace was declared. 

The P. P. C. L. I. (Princess Patricia Canadian Light 
Infantry) was a battalion named in honor of the daughter of the 
Duke of Connaught. It was among the first to leave Canada and 
only about ten of the original number returned. 



147 




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WiLLiAM Laird Brown was commissioned August 31, 1917, 
in the Ordnance Department of the Small Arms Division. 

He was stationed at New Haven, Conn., to inspect small 
arms, ammunition and trench warfare material in the Winchester 
R. A. Company. Is not yet discharged (July 15, 1919). 



148 




Olin Dodd Bryan enlisted in April, 1917, in the Naval 
Reserve Brigade. He was trained at Camp Sheridan, 111., in the 
Cavalry Training School. 

He went overseas Christmas, 1917, as a first lieutenant in 
32nd Division, U. S. A., Field Artillery. 

Lieutenant Bryan spent nine months overseas, and was 
engaged in the Battle of Chateau-Thierry, and was in action 
along the Vesle River after spending some time in training at 
Saumer, France. 

He returned home uninjured in January, 1919, and was sent 
to Camp McClellan, Ala., as an instructor. 

He was discharged in March, 1919. 



149 




Paul Callow enlisted April 12, 1917, was a member of the 
117th Trench Mortar Battery, 42nd (Rainbow) Division. He 
received his training in this country in Camp Mills, N. Y., Camp 
Merrit and Camp Meade, Md. Paul spent eighteen months over- 
seas and was in the following engagements: Chateau-Thierry, 
Champagne, St. Mihiel, Argonne and Luneville Sector. He 
returned home unwounded and was discharged May 3, 1919. 



150 




Kenneth Carskaddon enlisted April 29, 1918. He was in 
the 25th Company, 7th Trench Battalion, 155th Depot Brigade, 
U. S. A. He was in training at Camp Lee, Virginia, when the 
armistice was signed, and was discharged November 23, 1918. 



151 




Walter Raleigh Cliffe, Jr., enlisted April 21, 1917, in 
the S. S, W. 554. He received his training at Allentown, Pa., 
after which he spent sixteen months overseas. He was in the 
engagements at Somme, St. Mihiel and the Argonne. He was 
awarded the Croix de Guerre with Palm. On April 22, 1919, he 
received his discharge. 



152 




Charles Herbert Coble enlisted June 15, 1918, in the 55th 
Company of the 20th Regiment of Engineers. He was in train- 
ing at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., until he was discharged, June 
14, 1919. 

He was graduated from our High School in June, 1916. 



153 




Edmund Garretson Cook enlisted November 9, 1914, in 
the English Army. He was a member of the Fourth Battalion of 
the British Grenadier Guards. He was one of Kirchner's first one 
thousand men. 

He fell, wounded, as he was going *'over the top" on the 
morning of August 1, 1917; was taken to Casualty Station, No. 
61, in Flanders, where he died August 10th. At this station he 
was cared for by Base Hospital Corps, No. 10, of Philadelphia, 
which was presided over by a surgeon whom he knew, an officer 
in the American Red Cross. 

He was a great favorite with the men in his regiment. As 
he fell his comrades wanted to take him to a place of safety, but 
he refused, saying, "Carry on, you fellows, never mind me." 
These words have been taken for the watchword at P. M. C, 
where he was a pupil. They named their summer camp for him. 

The commander of his regiment wrote to his family, com- 
mending him for his coolness, bravery and courage. 

154 




J. Lewis Courter enlisted May 25, 1917. He was in Com- 
pany C, 101st Field Signal Battalion, 26th Division U. S. A. He 
received no training in America, but was sent direct overseas, 
where he spent seventeen months and saw the following engage- 
ments: Secteurs, Chenins des Dames, Sector N. W. of Toul, 
Chateau Thierry, St. Mihiel, and Argonne. He was not wounded, 
but received the Croix de Guerre, the Distinguished Service Cross 
and additional divisional citation. 



155 




Frew Douglas Crawford enlisted in July, 1918. He was 
in Company A, 54th Pioneer Infantry. After a short period of 
training at Camp Wads worth, S. C, he sailed for France with 
the rank of sergeant. One week after landing in France, the 
outfit was in the Argonne, just in time for the activities which 
started there September 26. They were with the Engineers 
and Artillery most of the time until the armistice was signed, 
and found plenty of excitement. After the armistice was signed 
they took a hike of four days into Belgium. They did guard 
duty there until orders were received that they should move to 
Coblenz, Germany, with the Army of Occupation. This move 
was accomplished partly on foot and partly in box cars of the 
"40 homme, 8 cheveaux" variety. Sergeant Crawford was re- 
lieved from duty April 1, 1919 on account of physical disability 
and arrived in the United States, May 16. He was discharged 
in June, 1919. 

156 




Fred Van Buren Dolbier enlisted June 6, 1917, in Com- 
pany B, 305th Field Signal Battalion, 80th Division, U. S. A.. 
For training he was encamped at Camp Lee, Va. He spent nine 
months overseas. Two months of this time he was brigaded with 
the British on the Somme Front. He took part in two drives 
on the Argonne Front; the first was the engagement of Septem- 
ber 26, 1918, and the second was November 1, 1918. He was 
not wounded, and received his discharge April 15, 1919. 



157 




Stewart Dunlap was a member of the Pennsylvania 
National Guard, and was with them on the border at the time 
of the Mexican trouble in 1916. He attended the Officers' Train- 
ing Camp at Niagara during the summer of 1917 and received 
his commission as second lieutenant. He was afterward pro- 
moted to first lieutenant. He was in the Machine Gun Company 
of the 8th Battalion, 3rd Division of the Regular Army. He 
went overseas April 2, 1918, and was in the following engage- 
ments: Aisne defensive, Belleau Wood, Champaigne-Marne 
defensive, St. Mihiel drive, Meuse-Argonne drive. He was in 
the Army of Occupation from December 15, 1918, until July 1, 
1919, and at the present time (August 28, 1919) he is supposed 
to be in Italy, serving on the food commission, as when last heard 
from he anticipated this move. 



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Photo b\ De Vai 



Aloysius Eagle enlisted September 17, 1917. He v/as in 
training at Fort Jay, N. Y., until October 18, 1917, when he sailed 
for France. He was a member of Unit 201 of the Graves Regis- 
tration Service. He held the rank of mechanic and did much 
courier work among the various registration units. 

He was in the battles of St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne. 

Mechanic Eagle was discharged from Camp Dix July 24, 
1919. 



159 




Louis J. Eagle, chief mechanic, tells his own story as follows: 
"I 'sio^ned u))' with the American Ked Cross in Januar}', 1918. I 
was informed that the American Red Cross was enlisting mechanics to 
servo with the Serl)ian Army. (The Serbians as a whole are agricul- 
turally inclined.) There were fifty-four mechanics picked from different 
parts of the States, and tliey were assembled in New York City to be 
I'xaiiiiiK'd I'oi- this Balkan work. Tl;c unit was finally cut down to twenty- 
three men. We were shipped to France in February, and arrived in 
France on March 11. The, unit first went to work in the city of Paris, 
and then we were sent to Marseilles to repair automobiles that had been 
in service four years. After repairing these cars they were sent to the 
front, and we were sent to Italy. We spent two weeks in Italy repairing 
cars, and left Italy for Salonica, Greece. In Salonica, Greece, I was 
promoted to chief mechanic. The cars at this time were used to care 
for refugees from Macedonia, Albania and Serbia. 

"In July we were given orders to get all hospitals and hospital 
sii])])lies ready for the advance. The Balkan advance started on the 
Doraine front and the Bulgarians retreated through southern Serbia, 
leaving us to advance up through Babona Pall and Rheupell Pass. 
(These passes, previous to this time, were considered unpassable for 
automobiles and the Bulgarians used nothing but oxen and horses 
through this country.) We moved hospitals from Benitza, Macedonia 

160 



to Uskubj Serbia, gc>ing through Monistir and Prelip. We noticed all 
the streets were named after German high officers. After leaving Prelip 
we drove through the great new Potsdam, which was at this time the 
base of supplies for the enemy. In our advance we noticed the terrible 
destruction of property and bridges, which necessitated our fording 
several rivers, including the terrible Black Vader river. On our arrival 
in Belgrade we were met with the terrible disease. The Serbian Army 
and the Jungo-Slavic Armies had advanced continually for thirty-six 
consecutive days, and in so doing had decreased their armies 50 per cent. 
The predominating diseases at this time M^ere dysentery and typhus. The 
retreating armies had destroyed so many large homes and public build- 
ings that the Serbians were forced to use^ the Crown Princess home as 
a hospital and we had to cover the stone floors with straw that the sick 
men might have some place to rest. We were in Belgrade three days 
when the terrible typhoid epidemic broke out, and we were forced to 
load three and four dead bodies on a yoke of oxen at a time. (Owing 
to the scarcity of wood these men were buried without coffins, being 
covered with a blanket only ) . After the outbreak of this typhoid epidemic 
our forces were decreased over 75 per cent., the remaining six were 
assigned to three automobiles to ply between Salonica, Greece, and Bel- 
grade, Serbia, to bring up medical supplies, as there were no medical 
supplies at this time in Serbia. Every British hospital was handling 
twice as many patients as had previously been arranged for, and just 
as we were about to get settled down, the Bulgarians surrendered and 
the whole army, including the Eed Cross outfits and clergical, were 
marched to our rear in Kremijohn, Macedonia. It took about five to 
six days for this outfit, with complete transport and cooking para- 
phernalia, to pass a given spot; this meant the tying up of the roads 
on our return to Salonica, and we found it nearly impossible to average 
twenty miles a day. (I understand that St. Paul shook the dust of the 
Bulcans from his feet on account of trouble, and I want to say that I 
thoroughly agree with St. Paul). After the surrender of the Bulgarians 
we were sent back to Salonica and discharged. After putting all cameons 
in first-class condition, we then proceeded home via Serbia, Macedonia, 
Greece, Italy, Monte Carlo, France, and Canada. Arrived home 
January 1, 1919." 



I had the pleasure of reading the commendation given to Mechanic 
Eagle by his major, S. A. Bard en, Deputy Commissioner to Serbia. 



161 




Ralph Pennock Earle enlisted November 27, 1917, in the 
25th Company, 446th Detachment of Railway Engineers. He 
was encamped at Camp Devens, Mass., until he went overseas in 
January, 1918. Entering as a private, on December 11, 1917, he 
was made a corporal ; on July 1, 1918, he became a sergeant. 
When the American Engineers took up their work in France they 
found many small maps of the railroads, all of which were com- 
puted as to grade and resistance, on different scales. In unifying 
this system Corporal Earle proved his efficiency to such an extent 
that he was awarded promotion to the rank of sergeant. On 
August 7, 1918, he was made a first class sergeant. This was 
followed by the degree of M.E. Jr. November 29, 1918, and 
M.E. Sr. April 5, 1919. On May 12, 1919, he was made a second 
lieutenant. 

At the present time Lieutenant Earle is still in France, but 
expects to be home in August. 

162 




Raymond Joseph Ellis enlisted July 20, 1918 in Motor 
Transport Company No. 487. He was trained at Fort Slocum, 
N. Y., Camp Joseph E. Johnston, Florida and Fort Sill, Okla. 
He was not sent overseas and was discharged July 2, 1919. 



163 




Robert Anthony Enderle enlisted May 10, 1916, in the 
National Guard of Arizona. He was sent to the Mexican border 
as a military police. When the World War broke out he was 
made a top sergeant in Company H, 158th Infantry, 40th Divi- 
sion, U. S. A. He received his training at Camp Kearney, Cali- 
fornia, and at Camp Mills, N. Y. Here he was promoted to 
second lieutenant. 

Lieutenant Enderle went overseas in August, 1918. He 
remained overseas ten months; spent sixteen days in the firing 
line, and was wounded in battle. 

Returning to America, he was discharged May 25, 1919. 
After visiting his mother in East Lansdowne, he again wended 
his way to the copper mines of Arizona, taking with him a life 
partner. 



164 




Clarence Hall Epplesheimer, Jr., enlisted September 12, 
1918, in the 4th Observation Battery-Field Artillery. He was in 
the officer's training camp at Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky, 
but when the armistice was signed he was more anxious to get 
home than he was to get a commission, so obtained his discharge 
November 21, 1918. 



165 




Edward William Frost enlisted in the Signal Corps, April 
17, 1918. Mr. Frost was teacher of manual training in the 
Lansdowne school and when he entered the service he became a 
member of a meteorological unit in the Science and Research 
Division U. S A. 

He was encamped at Camp McArthur, Texas, and College 
Station, Texas, and spent six months at Colombey les Belles, 
France. Mr. Frost graduated from the School of Meteorology 
A. and M. College, College Station, Texas. He was in the first 
detachment of fifty men to go to France from a U. S. Army 
school. 



166 




Eugene Craig Greiner enlisted May 25, 1917. He was a 
member of the 36th Service Company of the Signal Corps. Dur- 
ing training, he was encamped in New York City. He spent 
nineteen months overseas, but his duties did not call him into 
battle. He was discharged July 15, 1919. 



167 




Earl Hart enlisted in March, 1918. He was first sent to 
Fort Slocum, N. Y., afterward to Camp Furlong, Columbus, New 
Mexico, where he is still in service, (September 10, 1919.) He 
is in Headquarters Troop, 12th Calvary, U. S. A. 



168 




William A. Hoffman, Jr., enlisted May 7, 1917, with Base 
Hospital No. 10, Second Army Corps. He spent twenty-three 
months overseas. Corporal Hoffman was one of the first three 
hundred Americans to go overseas after war was declared. He 
served with the British at Le Treport, France, caring for British, 
Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders, Scotch, and toward the 
latter end of his service with the British had a few American 
patients. 

He was ready to be commissioned in Artillery at Sonmur 
Artillery School when the armistice was signed. 

He was discharged from Camp Dix April 22, 1919. 



169 




Leopold Hauf, Jr., enlisted January 3, 1918. He was a 
member of the Ordnance Corps, and after giving faithful service 
in that capacity he was transferred to Washington and served 
in the Quartermasters Corps. He received his discharge 
February 5, 1919. 



170 




John Kenneth Hoag enlisted in June, 1916, in the New 
York National Guard. He was on the Mexican Border with 
Troop A, 1st M. G. Cavalry. After the declaration of the World 
War he was on patrol duty at the New York Aqueduct. He was 
in training at Camp Wadsworth, Spartansburg, S. C, and was 
commissioned second lieutenant in June, 1918. Lieutenant Hoag 
was quartermaster of the hospital on Staten Island. After the 
armistice was signed he was put in Army Transport Service and 
made two trips across. He was discharged June 21, 1919. 



171 




William Paul Hood, Jr. (Private), enlisted March 26, 
1918. He was in Headquarters Troop Twelfth U. S. Cavalry; 
and received his training at Camp Furlong, Columbus, New Mex- 
ico. On October 10, 1918 he was transferred to the Central 
Infantry Officer's Training School, Camp MacArthur, Waco, 
Texas, as a candidate for a commission in the U. S. Army, but 
upon the signing of the armistice, said school was closed and the 
eligible candidates were honorably discharged, November 30, 
1918 



172 




Clarkson Toms Hunt enlisted June 2, 1918. He was 
accepted in Philadelphia and sent to Ft. Myers, Virginia, but 
later was rejected on account of his eyes. He then entered the 
training camp at Carnegie School of Technology, and was dis- 
charged December 21, 19 IS. 



173 




Henry Hudson Huquenele enlisted July 14, 1918, in Com- 
pany F 41st Infantry. He was overseas eleven months. In Janu- 
ary, 1919, he entered Graves Registration Service under Colonel 
Pierce, of Ridley Park, and in this service gained the rank of 
sergeant. Sergeant Huquenele was discharged July 12, 1919. 



174 




Robert F. Irwin, Jr. enlisted August 23, 1917. He was a 
member of the staff of the 40th Field Artillery in the 14th Divi- 
sion U. S. A. For training he was encamped in America at Ft. 
Oglethorpe, Camp Logan, Texas, Camp Doniphan, Okla., Camp 
Custer, Mich. He was not overseas and was discharged 
February 1, 1919. 



175 




J. Wesley Johnston enlisted August 2, 1917. He was in 
the Ordnance Depot, Company 4, until his arrival in France. He 
was then detached and served in Base Intermediate and Advance 
Sections. While in America he was encamped at Watervliet, 
N. F. He spent seventeen months overseas. He received his 
commission as a second lieutenant October 28, 1918. 

Lieutenant Johnston was with the British three months in con- 
nection with ammunition supplies for American units brigaded 
with the British. He was in charge of an ammunition depot in 
Paris when the armistice was signed. 



176 




' GrBORGE Caldwe;ll Johnson, Jr., enlisted in March^ 1918, in the 
Royal Engineer Signal Corps, Egyptian Expeditionary Force. He 
enlisted in the Canadian-British Army at their Philadelphia head- 
quarters, after rejection by the American Army and Navy recruiting 
offices, because of what later proved to be a slight temporary ailment, 
consequent upon a hospital operation for pleuro-pneumonia, performed 
at the Hahnneman Hospital, Philadelphia, early in 1918. He felt 
impelled to do his part in helping his fellow-countrymen to win the war 
against Germany. 

From Philadelphia he proceeded to a British training camp at 
Windsor, Kova Scotia, in March 25, 1918, and while there became a 
lance corporal. Later he sailed for England, where he became identified 
with the Eoyal Engineer Signal Corps of the British Army, and during 
his stay there had occasion to visit all parts of the British Isles. From 
England he proceeded via the Continent, through France and Italy, 
embarking from the latter country for Egypt via the Mediterranean Sea 
and Suez Canal. In Egypt his company served under General Sir E. H. 
Allenby. He is now stationed in Egypt, and in Palestine. He was in the 
Egyptian uprising in 1919. 

177 




Henry M. Jones enlisted September 9, 1918. He was sent 
to Camp Lee, Virginia, for training and assignment, but as the 
armistice was signed November 11th he was kept at Camp Lee 
until discharged, January 15, 1919. 



178 




Joseph Kelly enlisted August 15, 1918. He entered the 
Central Officer's Training School at Camp Lee, Va., but the 
armistice was signed before the expiration of the course of 
instruction, hence he failed to receive his commission. He was 
discharged November 17, 1918. 



179 




Alexander Kerr, Jr., enlisted May 23, 1917. He was 
placed in the Quartermaster's Corps, Regular Army, and later 
was made a sergeant. He was sent to San Juan, Porto Rico, and 
there remained until he was discharged, April 9, 1919. Sergeant 
Kerr saw no battles, but while in Porto Rico he experienced an 
earthquake, and saw many sights which he says the folks at home 
could hardly believe to be true. He thinks his experience shows 
a fellow how good his home really is ; **but," he continues, *'I am 
ready "♦■o join the colors again, if Uncle Sam needs me." 



180 




Lawton King enlisted in July, 1917 and was sent overseas 
in November of the same year. April 5, 1918, he went to the 
front and remained in active service, without any relief, up 
to the time of the signing of the armistice. He was in four 
major operations, was gassed but not wounded. He reached 
home in good health, and is now back in the service, located in 
the office of the chief signal officer of the U. S. Army Meteoro- 
logical Section, Washington, D. C. He received the rank of 
sergeant. 



181 




W. Paul King took the oath of allegiance April 13, 1917, at 
Fort Slocum, N. Y. and on the 23rd was shipped to Corozal, 
Panama. He was assigned to Battery E, 4th Field Artillery. 
This proved to be a mountain battery and they carried their 
guns on the backs of mules. In fact it was an old army outfit. 
Private King was the smallest man in the company and he said 
he felt a peculiar feeling creeping up his spine at their first 
reveille on the Isthmus lined up with giants. Panama has the 
plants and animals of the tropics. He says : "One could write a 
book on the adventures we had in the jungles. Things that were 
common occurrences you would scarcely believe to be true. But 
taking it all in all, I will say that the Panama jungle is not a 
fit place for a white man to soldier." He received the promo- 
tions to first class private, expert first class gunner and corporal. 
On September 23, 1918 he left the Isthmus for Camp Zachary 
Taylor, Kentucky. There he became an instructor in riding 
and later obtained a commission in the Field Artillery Reserve 
Corps with the rank of second lieutenant. He was discharged 
January 13, 1919. 



182 




Adolph Korn enlisted in August, 1917 and was enrolled as a 
student in the E. 0. T. C. at Camp Warden McLean, Fort Oglethorpe, 
Georgia, but after two weeks he resigned on his own volition, personal 
affairs needing his attention in Pennsylvania. The following April 12, 
he enlisted in the 45th Regiment of Engineers E. 0. T. S. The outfit 
spent one night at Camp Meade, and the next morning was moved to a 
special camp not far from Camp Humphreys. There they built about two 
miles of railroad, being a real construction gang of about a hundred tents, 
but with the necessary military restraint added. On July 4, 1918 they 
started for overseas, reaching Newport News, Virginia, their debarkation 
point, the next morning. 

The day before the outfit went across Sergeant Korn was one of 
four of the enlisted men picked to go to the Fourth Engineers Officers' 
Training School, Camp Lee, Ya. They reported there July 8th. He 
had at this time been advanced successively through the grades of private, 
first-class private, corporal and sergeant. After one month at Camp Lee 
the engineers' section of the officers training camp was sent to Camp 
Humphreys, Virginia. In September he was recommended for a com- 
mission as second lieutenant and was retained as an instructor at the 
officers' school, until he was discharged November 36, 1918, with the 
rank of second lieutenant in the Engineers' Eeserve Corps. 

183 




Richard Anderson Landes enlisted in August, 1918, and 
was placed in the 29th Company of the 6th Battalion in the 
officers' training school at Camp Lee, Va. 

After the signing of the armistice in November, 1918, he 
was discharged. 



184 




William Stuart Landes enlisted February 19, 1916. He was a 
member of the Headquarters' Staff, 113th Infantry, 29th Division, 
IJ. S. A. His training in America was given at Camp McClellan, Ala. 
Pervious to this he was on the Mexican border as a member of the 
ISTational Guards ; so he entered the war as a second lieutenant. 

Lieutenant Landes was overseas eleven months, and took part in 
the following engagements : Defence of Center Sector, Haute Alsace ; 
Meuse-Argonne campaign, including Battle of Ormont Farms ; Bois de 
la Eeine, Mollville Farm and Etrange Eidoe. He was wounded in the 
Battle of Ormont Farm, Meuse-Argonne. He was promoted to the rank 
of first lieutenant on November 30, 1917. On November 13, 1918, he 
became a captain, and in April, 1919, he was recommended for promotion 
to major. 

Captain Landes was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and 
also the French Croix-de-Guerre. Since his return home he has been 
made a chevalier of the French Legion of Honor. 

He was discharged from service May 28, 1919. 

185 




Photo hv Dc I'du.v 



Benjamin J. Lewis enlisted December 5, 1917. He was 
encamped at Camps Slocum, N. Y., Jos. E. Johnston, Florida, and 
Merritt, N. Y. He was sent overseas as a casual, but was there 
placed in Motor Transport Company 705. In this capacity he 
traversed a great part of France. He remained overseas fifteen 
months. At one time he piloted General Pershing through the 
S. O. S. for an inspection. He returned to America the latter 
part of July, 1919. 



186 




Frederick Howard Lewis enlisted June 3, 1918. He was in 
the 70th Company 18th Battalion, Infantry, in the Replacement 
and Training Troops, Camp Grant, 111. He was in training at 
Camp Grant, Rockford, 111. He was given the rank of second 
lieutenant. Infantry U. S A. Lieutenant Lewis was discharged 
December 6, 1918. 



187 




Robert Ascough Livingston enlisted July 27, 1917. He 
was in Company E, 10th Regiment, Engineers. He was en- 
camped in Washington, D. C, until sent overseas, where he spent 
seventeen months doing the work of an engineer, hence in no 
battle. He was discharged February 24, 1919. 



188 




Daniel Lynch enlisted May 9, 1917. After being trained 
at Fort Howard, Md., Camp Admiral, Md., and Camp Meade he 
was made a sergeant and placed in Motor Truck Co., No. 36. 
After passing an examination for a commission in the aviation 
section of the Signal Corps, he was transferred to provost guard 
at Camp Meade December 11, 1918. From this camp he received 
his discharge June 30, 1919. 



189 




Justus Carlile Martin enlisted May 20, 1917. He was in 
Company K, 147th and 357th Infantry in the 37th, 41st and 90th 
Divisions U. S. A. He was in training at Plattsburg Barracks, 
N. J. and at Camp Merritt, N. J., receiving the commission of first 
lieutenant. Lieutenant Martin spent sixteen months overseas and 
was in the following engagements: — St. Mihiel; Meuse-Ar- 
gonne; Ypres-Sys, and Ypres-Scheldt. He was twice wounded, 
first in the Meuse-Argonne and next in the skirmish at Raon 
18 Etape, France, near St. Die. He was discharged April 17, 
1919. 



190 




Edward Winslow Martin enlisted August 1, 1917. He 
was encamped at Marfa, Texas, and Jacksonville, Florida. He 
spent ten and a half months overseas, was in the 41st (First 
Depot) Division. He held the ranks successively of private, 
sergeant and second lieutenant. He reached America the middle 
of July, 1919. 



191 




Herbert M. Matsinger enlisted April 18, 1918, in the 320th 
Field Hospital 305th Sanitary Train, 80th Division, U. S. A. 

He was in training at Camp Lee and spent one year overseas, 
Corporal Matsinger saw action in the following drives : Artois 
Sector, July 22nd to August 18, 1918; Flanders, St. Mihiel (Re- 
serve) September 16th, Meuse, Argonne, September 25th to 
October 10th, and November 1st to November 7, 1918. 

He was discharged June 10, 1919. 



192 




Donald McLean enlisted October 1, 1918. During the sum- 
mer of 1917, he was in the government training school at Wil- 
liams' College. He spent the year in Williams' College, then 
during the summer of 1918 he attended the training schools both 
there and at Plattsburg. After enlistment he entered the Fourth 
Officer's Training Camp at Camp Lee, Virginia, October 15, 1918. 
He there received his commission as second lieutenant. Lieu- 
tenant Donald McLean was discharged in January, 1919, and he 
again took up his studies in Williams College. 



193 




Robert Louis McLean, Jr., enlisted August 27, 1917. He 
was in the Headquarters Company, 55th Infantry, 7th Division, 
U. S. A. He was in Camp Oglethorpe, Ga., and Camp MacArthur, 
Texas. At Oglethorpe he received his commission as second 
liteutenant. Lieutenant McLean spent eleven months overseas 
and was in the Second Army advance November 10 and 11. He 
returned to America the following June, and was discharged 
June 26, 1919. 



194 




Walter L. Michener, Jr., enlisted in April, 1917, in Bat- 
tery A, 128th Field Artillery, 35th Division, U. S. A. He received 
his training at Camp Doniphan, Fort Sill, Okla. 

Corporal Michener spent one year overseas ; was in the Bat- 
tle of Argonne Forest. He was sent over with signal detail three 
months in advance of his battery. After finishing courses in two 
artillery schools in France, he was sent to First Army Head- 
quarters as private secretary to Major Meyer, of the General 
Staff. Previous to this, while leading a party of men to establish 
wires from the front lines to headquarters, he was gassed. 

In January, 1919, he was operated upon for appendicitis, so 
spent three months in hospitals. In May, 1919, at Fort Riley, 
he received his discharge. 



195 




Sidney M. Morrison enlisted in June, 1918, in the Royal Flying- 
Corps. He went overseas at once, and was transferred to the 6th Regi- 
ment, Seaforth Highlanders, in the 51st Division of the British Army, 
Company A. His company did not get into action, although he was 
overseas eleven months. His last experience in Europe was an attack of 
"flu," and while in the hospital he lost his kilts, so we can only imagine 
how he looked as a Scotchman from his photograph. He was discharged 
in Jnne, 1919. 

196 




Allaire Montgomery Murton, of Winnipeg, Canada, 
enlisted January 5, 1916, in the First Army Troop Corps of the 
Canadian Engineers. He received his training at Camp Hughes, 
Manitoba, Canada. 

He spent three years and two months overseas, arriving in 
France just before the Battle of Vimy Ridge, in March, 1917, and 
finished with Mons, November 11, 1918. He was discharged May 
7, 1919. He was given the opportunity to visit Paris, Nice, 
Monte Carlo, Glasgow, and a great part of Belgium, in all of 
which places he was treated by the inhabitants with the greatest 
kindness. 



197 




Robert Wallaer Neall enlisted September 6, 1918. He 
was in the Headquarter's Company, 36th Regiment, 41st Brigade, 
Coast Artillery. He was in Camps Dix, Eustes and Stuart and 
at Forts Monroe and Hancock. Was discharged December 
7, 1918. 



198 




Gerald Griffin Prendergast enlisted October 1, 1917, in 
the Supply Company No. 310, 0. M. C. Headquarters Supply 
Troops, First Army. He was encamped at Camp Joseph E. 
Johnston, Jacksonville, Fla., until he went overseas, where he 
spent thirteen months. They had charge of supplying 77 per cent, 
of the A. E. F. He became godfather to a French girl, Mile. 
Allemande, and afterwards served as best man at her wedding 
to Sergeant J. F. Doyle, A. T. S., from California. This young 
lady left Chateau Thierry when the great American drive started. 
Gerald was discharged July 29, 1919. 



199 




Harold Grebe Roberts enlisted November 30, 1917. He 
was in Company D, also in the Regimental Band of the 24th En- 
gineers in the First-Second-Third Armies. He received his train- 
ing at Camp Dix, N. J. and spent sixteen months overseas. He 
was in the following engagements : St. Mihiel, September 12 to 
16, 1918; Meuse-Argonne, September 26-October 13, 1918. He 
returned home unwounded, and was discharged June 12, 1919. 



200 




Charles John Schappet (Lieutenant) enlisted November 
7, 1917. He was in Base Hospital, No. 100, Sanitary Corps. His 
training was received at Camp Sheridan, Ala. He received his 
commission August 13, 1918. Lieutenant Schappet spent nine 
months overseas. He has returned to America unwounded, and 
was discharged in August, 1919. 



201 




Raymond Joseph Schappet enlisted August 14, 1918, in the 
Camp Joseph E. Johnston, Company No. 5, Automatic Replace- 
ment Draft. He was trained at Camp Lafayette, Easton, Pa., and 
Camp Joseph E. Johnston, Fla. He was made company clerk of 
C. J. E. J. Co. He was not sent overseas and was discharged 
December 28, 1918. 



202 




John Shaffner, Jr., enlisted in May, 1918. In June, 1918, 
he went overseas and was made army field clerk, connected with 
general headquarters. He is still in France (August 20, 1919). 



203 




John Shedden Shoemaker enlisted in May, 1918, and spent 
four months in the officers' training camp at Fort Niagara. He 
was not called into service until September, 1918, when he was 
placed in the Quartermaster's Corps, and was on duty testing 
oils in Philadelphia and New York until December 7, 1918, when 
he was discharged. 



204 




Albert A. Simpler enlisted in August, 1917. He was in 
the Third Battalion Staff and Battery F in the 44th Artillery 
C. A. C. Army Artillery. 

He received his training at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, and at 
Fort Monroe, Virginia. Lieutenant Simpler was overseas four- 
teen months and was in active service most of the time from 
April 1 until November 11, 1918. He was discharged in Feb- 
ruary, 1919. 



205 




Roland Adams Simpler enlisted in October, 1918. He was 
in Company C, 340th Light Tank Battalion, Tank Corps, U. S. A. 
He was in Camp Polk, Camp Greene, and Camp Meade. Did not 
get overseas, and was discharged January 2, 1919. 



206 




Corporal Edward B. Spurr enlisted December 5, 1917, in 
Company C, 29th Regiment of Engineers, 2nd Army Troops. 
In America he was encamped at Columbus Barracks, Kelly Field, 
Texas; Morrison, Va., and Camp Devens, Mass. He spent nine 
months overseas. 

Corporal Spurr was on the front two months and eleven 
days; he took part in the St. Mihiel Drive, which began Septem- 
ber 12, 1918. In this battle he was slightly wounded. He was 
in the Army of Occupation and acted as interpreter for both 
French and German. 

Corporal Spurr also saw service in Flash Ranging Section 
No. 2. He was discharged March 24, 1919. 



207 




Albert Campbell Stewart, of Runnymede Avenue, enlisted 
April 2, 1918, in Battery A, 306th Regiment of the 77th Division, 
U. S. A. He was encamped for training at Camp Meade, Md. 
He spent one year overseas and was in the following engage- 
ments: Baccart Sector, July 15th to August 1st; Vesle Sector, 
August 11th to August 18th; Oise-Aisne offensive, August 18th 
to September 16th; Meuse-Argonne, September 26th to Novem- 
ber 11th, 1918. 

He was made a first class private ; returned home April 29, 
1919, and was discharged May 10th, without a wound. 



208 




Harry Stewart, Jr. (Aldan) enlisted November 19, 1917, in 
the First Army Artillery. For training he was encamped in 
Washington, D. C, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, and Camp Jack- 
son, S. C. He was overseas from May 1, 1918, to May 22, 1919, 
and was engaged in the battles of Chateau Thierry, Argonne and 
Verdun. After the armistice was signed, the duty of taking 
the official photographer over the various battle fronts was 
assigned to him. In this way he obtained a valuable collection 
of photographs. He was discharged May 29, 1919. 



209 




Wallace Tindall Stewart enlisted August 1, 1917. He 
served in Battery B, 51st Field Artillery, 17th Division, U. S. A. 
He was in training on the Mexican border at Camp Stanley, 
Texas, at Camp Jackson, S. C, at Fort Sill, Okla., at Camp Bovie, 
Texas, and at Camp Doniphan, Okla. 

He was promoted to sergeant Q. M. C. August 14, 1917 ; was 
transferred to the Field Artillery January 2, 1918 ; was promoted 
to sergeant of Field Artillery April 19, 1918, and was commis- 
sioned a second lieutenant Field Artillery June 1, 1918. 

Lieutenant Stewart was discharged December 9, 1918. 



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Wilfred Sinclair Stevenson, Jr., enlisted May 17, 1917, in 
Company D, 19th Rigiment Railway Engineers. He received his 
training at the Commercial Museum, 34th and Spruce Street, 
Philadelphia, after which he spent nineteen months and four 
days overseas. He completed a course at the Saumur Artillery 
School, qualifying for a commission in Field Artillery. The 
commission was not granted because the armistice was signed 
and the orders were given to grant no further commissions prior 
to date of completion of course. He was discharged March 31, 
1919, with the rank of corporal of engineers. 



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James Holden Walton enlisted September 19, 1917 in 
the Mounted Infantry, 79th Military Police Company. He was 
at Camp Meade from September 19, 1917 until July 8, 1918, 
when he was sent to France, with the rank of a first class private. 
Private Walton was in France from May 16, 1918, until May 16, 
1919. He was discharged from Camp Dix on June 5, 1919. 



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Reverend Harold C. Warren was secretary of the Y. M. 
C. A. attached to the 29th Division, U. S. A. 

He was overseas six months; on the Alsatian front, and 
on the eastern bank of the Meuse above Verdun. 

After being discharged he returned to his chosen field of 
service in Walla- Walla, Washington. 



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Raymond William Watson enlisted May 29, 1918, in the 
13th Company, 154th Depot Brigade. He was in training at 
Camp Meade, Md., until he died October 8, 1918, a victim of 
influenza. Raymond was a steady, industrious boy and gave 
promise of the same kind of manhood. 



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John W. Weigel, Jr., enlisted in August, 1917. He was 
stationed at Camp Logan, Texas, where he was assigned to the 
Auxiliary Remount Station No. 325. He was hopeful of reach- 
ing the other side soon, when he fell a victim to influenza and 
died October 10, 1918. John gave promise of a sturdy, upright 
manhood. 



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Edgar Myers Wilson enlisted January 12, 1918. He was 
first in the E. 0. C. N. A. University of Pennsylvania. He was 
then in first Private Company, second Provincial Regiment, 
Ordnance Training Camp, Camp Hancock. He then entered the 
Ordnance Machine Gun School, Camp Hancock; next the 0. M. 
& R. S., Camp Raritan, N. M. He received his commission as 
second lieutenant, September 12, 1918. Lieutenant Wilson was 
discharged January 27, 1919. 



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John M. Wilson enlisted April 27, 1918, in Company A 
305th Ammunition Train, 80th Division U. S. A. In America he 
was encamped at Camps Lee, Va. ; Hill, Va., and Dix, N. J. 

He was overseas one year and was in the following engage- 
ments : St. Mihiel offensive (Corps Reserve) September 12 to 16, 
1918, inclusive; Meuse-Argonne offensive, September 26, to 
November 11, 1918, inclusive. He was discharged June 9, 1919. 



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Thomas Cole Wright, First Lieutenant C. A. C, enlisted 
May 13, 1917. He was in Battery B, Fourth Trench Mortar 
Battalion of the Corps Artillery, 4th Army Corps. In America, 
he was trained at Ft. Niagara, N. Y. ; Ft. Monroe, Va. ; Ft. Du 
Pont, Del., and Camp Eustis, Va. Lieutenant Wright was over- 
seas from October 6th to January 18, 1919, but was not engaged 
in any battles. He returned to America and was discharged 
February 13, 1919. 



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John Williamson Ziegler, Jr., 101 East Greenwood Ave- 
nue, enlisted December 6, 1917. He was in the Supply Company 
of the 64th Artillery and C. A. C, 84th Brigade. 

Williamson received his training at Fort Crockett, Galveston, 
Texas, and was sent overseas July 14, 1918. He remained abroad 
until February 24, 1919, but was never called into active service, 
so returned home unharmed. 

He was a pupil of the Lansdowne School for thirteen years ; 
was a member of the famous class of 1915, which sent more boys 
into service than any other class. 



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AVIATION 




Arthur Livingston Batten enlisted May 17, 1917. He 
was in the Fifth Air Park, First Pursuit Group, First Army. 
He was encamped at Chandler Field, Essington, Pa., and Gerstner 
Field, Lake Charles, La. He was overseas from July 18, 1819, 
until March 5, 1919. He was engaged in the St. Mihiel offensive. 
Private Batten reached home unwounded and was discharged 
March 27, 1919. 



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Louis M. Bayne enlisted March 14, 1918, in the Reserve 
Corps, Aviation Section, Signal Officers. He was in training at 
Camp Dick, Dallas, Texas ; School of Military Aeronautics, Cor- 
nell University, Ithaca, N. Y., and at Mitchell Flying Field, Gar- 
den City, Long Island. Did not get overseas, and was discharged 
January 25, 1919. 



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Thomas Clifford Bradley enlisted October 2, 1917, in 
U. S. A. Aerial Photography (unassigned). He was encamped 
at Camp Upton, L. I., Madison Barracks, N Y., and Rochester, 
N. Y. He did not get overseas and was discharged December 
19, 1918. 



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John Ralph Donaghy enlisted May 17, 1918. He was in 
the 866th Aero Squardon, Air Service. He was in training at 
Garden City Camp, L. I., N. Y., where he was a corporal, then 
acting sergeant in Camp Maintenance Department. He did not 
get overseas and was discharged February 7, 1919. 



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Robert Alexander Ferguson, Jr., enlisted June 15, 1917. 
He was in the Army Ambulance Service and also in the Army 
Air Service, Squadrons 336, 827 and 836. In America he w^as 
encamped at Camp Crane, Allentown, and Mitchell Field, Long 
Island, New York. He spent nine months overseas and was dis- 
charged April 3, 1919. 



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Herbert Bollard Fraatz made application to the Adjutant 
General of the War Department for a commission in the aviation 
section of the U. S. Army August 30, 1917. He was examined 
at Essington, Pa., October 10th, and in the afternoon of the same 
day had a physical examination at the University of Pennsyl- 
vania. He was sent to Camp Dix for transfer through the 
Infantry into the Signal Corps. He served a few months as a 
photographic instructor, and then was transferred to Camp 
Alfred Vail, Little Silver, N. J., for duty in the radio research 
laboratories. April 1, 1918, he reported by order of the War 
Department to the School of Military Aeronautics, Ithaca, N. Y. 
He graduated from this school and was sent to Camp Dick, 
Dallas, Texas. From there he was transferred to Ellington Field, 
Texas, thence to the School of Fire, Sa Leon, Texas. He grad- 
uated from a five-weeks' course there and was sent back to Elling- 
ton Field. Lieutenant Fraatz was discharged from the Regular 
Army in January, 1919. 

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Thomas K. Hannum enlisted April 17, 1917, in the Navy. 
After spending one year in this service he resigned and entered 
the Air Service. Thomas received training, while in the Navy, 
at Cape May; while in the Air Service at Dallas, Austin, Texas, 
and at Lake Charles, Louisiana. 

He was discharged December 16, 1918. 



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WiLMER M. Hannum enlisted September 8, 1917, in the 
45th Aero Squadron. He received his training in Air Service 
at Gerstner Field, Lake Charles, La., and was promoted to the 
rank of sergeant. 

Sergeant Hannum was discharged January 21, 1919, and 
returned to his home on Rigby Avenue. 

This avenue, only about 450 feet long, was the most loyal 
street of Lansdowne. Eight boys were in service from this block. 



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James H. Kennedy enlisted in Aviation July 8, 1917. He was 
overseas fourteen months. For training he attended the Ground School 
at Ohio University, Columbus, Ohio. He went overseas October 27, 
1917, and was in Foggia, Italy, at the American Aviation Camp (Campo 
di Aviazione Sud) from November, 1917, until October, 1918. He was 
an instructor five months of that time. In October he went to the Italian 
Front, participating in the last offensive (Battle of the Piave). He 
received the Croce al Merito di Guerra from the King of Italy. He made 
three trips over the Alps, after the armistice was signed, carrying bread to 
the people in the devastated areas, which were cut off from all supplies, 
Caproni planes were used for all bombing expeditions. Lieutenant Ken- 
nedy was among the first Americans to arrive in Italy, and was sent to 
the school there to receive his flying instructions. He did no flying in 
this country. After completing his course in May, 1918, he was retained 
at the school as instructor of the new boys who had just arrived. He 
received his training from Italian instructors, there being no American 
teachers at that place. He and two others remained at the school until 
October, 1918, when Lieutenant Kennedy was transferred to the Italian 
Front (Aviation Camp at Bataglia, near Padua), where he arrived just 
in time for the final offensive and where he was when the armistice was 
signed. 

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Edmund Rich Morton (corporal), enlisted April 18, 1918. 
He was a member of Signal Corps, Detachment 814, Depot Aero 
Squadron, stationed at Washington, D. C. He was later trans- 
ferred to 1st Detachment Air Service and still later into the 2nd 
Detachment at Langley Field, where he conducted an investiga- 
tion of airplane camera mounts, and went up in an airplane. He 
was later transferred to Section B Detachment Air Service Flying 
School, where he was night shift timekeeper in the garage, and 
did not fly. He was discharged January 31, 1919. 



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Walter Morell Sanders enlisted December 10, 1917 ; was 
trained at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. He was a member of the 137th 
Aero Squadron and served overseas one year and twenty-two 
days. He was discharged March 28, 1919. 



233 




Louis F. Stewart enlisted March 14, 1918, in the 269th Aero 
Service Squadron. He was trained at Camps Kellyfield, Texas and 
Gerstner Field, La. He spent eleven months overseas and was 
discharged July 21, 1919. 



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William A. Sullivan enlisted October 10, 1917, in the 497th 
Aero Squadron. He spent twenty-one months overseas ; returned 
home un wounded, and was discharged July 28, 1919. 



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MEDICAL CORPS 




Edwaed W. Burdsall enlisted in Company B, Camp Medical 
Corps, September 6, 1918. He was in training at Camp Dix, 
N. J., but did not get overseas. 

He was discharged May 1, 1919. 



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Edward Earl Burrows enlisted in a Medical Corps, June 3, 
1917. He left America with the first contingent of men leaving 
this country for Foreign Service, the A. E. F. June 15, 1917. 

They experienced four submarine fights on the way over, 
without mishap. After between three and four months' service 
overseas, he was brought back to the United States, and taken 
off army transport duty in the Medical Corps, and stationed at 
the Port of Embarkation, Hoboken, N. J. in the office of the 
surgeon of the port. 

From this post he was assigned and commissioned as assist- 
ant fire marshal of Bush Terminal, Brooklyn, N. Y. and remained 
in this position until the end of the war. 

Thus his service throughout was a detached service. He was 
discharged December 24, 1918. 



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Williamson Hayes Crawford enlisted in August, 1918, in 
the Medical Corps attached to the Harvard Unit at Boulogne, 
France ; later attached to the University at Dijon, France. In 
America he was in training at Camp Pike, Ark. He spent ten 
months overseas. 

Seargeant Crawford was discharged in August, 1919. 



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Walter G. Dun lap, first class private, enlisted January 25, 1918, 
in the Medical Detachment of the. Seventh U. S. Infantry, 3rd Division, 
Regular Army. In America he was encamped for training at Camp 
Greene, Charlotte, N. C. He is still (August 10th) in Germany in the 
Army of Occupation, and he will tell his own story : 

"We arrived in France on April 15, 1918. We took up our training 
near Chaumont, France. On June 2, 1919, we went into the fight for 
the fir?t time in a sector on the Marne. The action was part of the 
Aisne defensive. We (Seventh Infantry) remained here until June 
11th, M'hen we were taken to the other side of Chateau Thierry. Here 
we relieved the Marines who were fighting at Belleau Wood. We were 
engaged here from June 14th to 24th. We were then taken hack to the 
right of Chateau Thierry, about half-way between Chateau Thierry and 
Doemans ; our division occupied this whole front, some 15 kilometers. 
We held this front during the last great German drive towards Paris, 
which began July 14, 1918, and lasted until July 18th. Due to the 
excellent work of the 3rd Division the German drive broke down. 
This was the Champaigne-Marne defensive. Our division then crossed 
the Marne, driving the Germans before them from July 18th to 29th, 
when we were relieved by the 28th Division (X. G. P.). Because of the 

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splendid work of the 3rd Division on the Marne and in Chateau Thierry 
we are officially known as the 'Marne Division/ 

"We went into a rest area for the month of August, but in the early 
part of September started a long march toward the St, Mihiel Sector. 
From September 4th to September 26th we marched full pack. March- 
ing by night, cold and rainy, resting a few hours during the day in mud 
and wet blankets, with little and sometimes nothing to eat. Our artillery, 
machine gun battalions and ambulance trains were all in the first part 
of the St. Mihiel drive. 

"Coming back from the St. Mihiel we were sent into the Meuse- 
Argonne drive. We relieved the 79th Division on September 29th. The 
fighting in the Argonne was of a most, difficult type. The Germans 
fought for every foot of the ground. After a month of hard driving we 
were relieved on the 29th of October. Our regiment entered the Argonne 
3800 strong and came out 1400 strong. In the medical detachment we 
entered with 60 men and came out with 18. 

"The signing of the armistice on November 11, 1918, was a source 
of great joy to all the combatant troops. However, I cannot help but feel 
that had the Allies carried the war into Germany it would have been a 
great lesson to the German people. 

"On the 16th of jSTovember we started our long, hard march to the 
Ehine. Many times on that hike I thought of those words in your 
classroom, 'There is no Royal Eoad to Geometry,' changing it in my 
thoughts to 'There is no Eoyal Eoad to the Ehine.' We marched some 
241 miles all told through France, Alcase-Lorraine and Germany to the 
Ehine. Serving in the Army of Occupation has not been a pleasant 
task — watching the other boys go home. But it had to be done, and, as 
the time for my service draws swiftly to a close (I hope), I know that 
I shall look back upon my life here with a certain sense of satisfaction, 
knowing that the 3rd Division was picked for duty here bedause it was 
a tried and proven organization. 

"I have often thought of my school days at Lansdowne High School, 
realizing that I owe much to the training received there. From the 
classroom I learned that respect for authority which is absolutely neces- 
sary in the army. On the atheletic field I learned the principle of 
'Play up, play the game,' when my w^hole body cried out for rest. These 
things have been of immeasurable value to me during the past eighteen 
months. 

"The outline that I have given above is not intended to claim undue 
praise, either for myself or the division to which I belong, but merely 
that you may have some idea of the work of that division. It is called a 
regular army division, but, as a matter of fact, 80 per cent, of the men 
are either N". A. (drafted) N'. G., or men enlisted, as myself, for the 
period of the emergency. We come from all States in the Union, hence 
no State or politician is particularly interested in our work. But I know 
that when the true history of this war is written the so-called regular 
army divisions (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th) will come in for their full share 
of credit. Incidentally, I might remark that the 3rd Division Avears 
more stars on its Victory Eibbons than any division in the A. E. F. 
We are entitled to five stars for major operations, and one for 'defensive 
sector' between November and December 11, 1918." 

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XuMA Drvoisox enlisted November 29, 19 IT, and went, via Fort 
Slocum, X. v.. to Hoboken ; sailed from there, November 30th, for 
Panama. He arrived at Colon, December 8th, and immediately went 
bv train to the other end of the Isthmus, where he was stationed for 
ten months at Carozal, about two miles from the Pacific. He says, 
"My one thought, like that of all the boys, was to get to France, but 
after many futile attempts to get away, I gave it up. The only w^ay to 
get away from there was to die, go insane, or wait a chance to take a 
competitive examination that would entitle one to go to an officers' train- 
ing school in the States. This I did and was fortunate enough to get 
back in late October, 1918. From there I resigned to go to a replace- 
ment regiment, but never got overseas. While at Panama I was in the 
Medical Department for a while as post pharmacist and for a few months 
as ambulance driver. About the only exciting thing that happened was 
when I had the good fortune to be attached to a part of the 12th Cavalry 
as a first-aid man. In that capacity we completely crossed the Isthmus 
on horseback. I believe it was the first time this had been done. From 
the first of September until I received my discharge, March 20, 1919, I 
served in the Infantry at Camp Gordon, Ga. 

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Guy Kendig Fackler enlisted September 5, 1918. He was 
in training at the N. C. 0. School, Medical Department, Camp 
Greenleaf, Georgia, from October 1, 1918 until January 7, 1919. 
(unassigned). He was then transferred to Camp Stuart, New- 
port News, Va., to Hospital Train No. 3 as sergeant of property. 
This hospital train worked as a separate detachment under the 
Surgeon of the Port of Debarkation, Medical Department at New- 
port News, transporting sick and wounded enroute from the 
debarkation hospital to various camps throughout the United 
States. He was discharged July 5, 1919. 



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Edward Ellsworth Hendrickson was drafted into service 
September 4, 1918. He was in a medical unit and received his 
training at Camp Greenleaf, Lytle, Georgia, from September 4, 
1918, until January 1, 1919. From January 6, 1919, until June 
9, 1919, he was attached to Debarkation Hospital No. 5, New 
York City. He is now (July 20, 1919) on duty in Embarkation 
Hospital, No. 1, Hoboken, N. J. 



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John Kellett, Jr. enlisted October 4, 1917, in the Medical 
Detachment, 7th Sanitary Train, Eighth Field Artillery, Seventh 
Division U. S. A. He received his training at Camp McClellan, 
Ala., after which he spent eleven months overseas. He was in 
the Meuse-Argonne offensive. Private Kellett was given a four- 
teen day furlough for sight-seeing in Paris and Great Britain. 
He was discharged June 28, 1919. 



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Dr. Francis King enlisted in January, 1918. He went to 
Camp Oglethorpe, and a month later received his commission as 
first lieutenant. In April, 1918, he went overseas, and he was 
placed in charge of a camp hospital at Tours, France, where 
he remained until about the 1st of August, 1919, when he was 
sent home and discharged. 



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Dr. Walter Raleigh Livingston enlisted in December, 
1917, in the Medical Corps, U. S. A. He was encamped at Camp 
Jackson, Columbus, S. C, until February 24, 1919, when he was 
sent to Siberia. He remained there six months, treating prisoners 
of all nationalities in the hospitals established by the U. S. 
Government. 

He had the rank of first lieutenant. 



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Stewart McConaghy enlisted June 24, 1918. He received 
his training at Camp Greenleaf, Georgia and was made a ser- 
geant first class, Medical Department U. S. A. 



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Charles Jenks Pilling, Jr. enlisted in March 1918. He 
was in Repair Shop No. 1 of the Medical Department of the 
U. S. A. After spending a short time at Camp Merritt, he went 
overseas, where he spent fifteen months. He had the rank of 
sergeant in the Medical Corps ; was discharged the latter part of 
July, 1919. 



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Sergeant Leslie L. Taylor enlisted May 14, 1918. He 
was in Base Hospital Unit No. 38, Medical Department U. S. A. 
In America, he was encamped at Camp Martin, Chadds Ford, 
Pa., and at the Second Regiment, Armory, Phila. He was over- 
seas from June 21, 1918, until July 16, 1919. 

Base Hospital No. 38 was one of four base hospitals, com- 
prising the hospitals at Center, Nantes and Loire-Inferieure, 
France. At the time of opening and functioning as a hospital, 
they were rated as a thousand bed hospital, but at the time the 
armistice was signed, they were carrying 2413 patients on their 
rolls. Sergeant Taylor was discharged July 23, 1919. 



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AMBULANCE SERVICE 




William Arthur Dewar enlisted May 22, 1917, in the United 
States Army Ambulance Corps, Section 504, University of Pennsylvania 
Unit. AugTist 23rd he sailed from ^ew York on the S. S. Baltic and 
landed in Liverpool, England, September 15th. He went direct to St. 
Nazaire — drove from St. Xazaire to Sandricourt via Angers and Chartres. 
He became attached to the 11th Division of the French Army and fol- 
lowed it through the following engagements : Xoyon Sector, Yerdnn 
Sector, Mondidier, Xoyon defensive, Compiegne Sector, Aisne-Marne 
offensive, Oise-Aisne offensive, Ypres-Lys offensive. 

He drove the same car from October 15, 191?, nntil he was relieved 
in March, 1919, covering an estimated distance of 20,000 miles. 

Arthur had three permissions: (1) February, 1918, to Xice; (2) 
September, 1918, to Aix-les-Bains ; (3) February, 1919, to Menton. He 
was in the following hospitals as a result of being gassed: Camp Hos- 
pital, No. 45, at Aix-les-Bains, September, 1918; French Hospital at 
Arcissur-Aube in January, 1919 : Convalescent Hospital, Yo. 4, at Men- 
ton, February, 1919 ; Base Hospital, Yo. 57, in Paris, March, 1919. 

He spent one night or more in each of ninety-three different town. 

He sailed for home on the U. S. S. Mobile from Brest April 13, 1919, 
after spending twenty months overseas. He received the Croix-de-Guerre, 
and a citation with his Division of the French Army. 

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James Aloysius Donnelly enlisted September 5, 1918, in 
the Evacuation Ambulance Company, No. 77, 41st Division, 
U. S. A. He was trained at Camp Greenleaf, Georgia, and spent 
four months overseas. He received his discharge March 11, 1919. 



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Wheeler Gilmore enlisted May 17, 1917. He was in the 
U. S. A. Ambulance Service with the French Army, Section 
504. This section was originally recruited from the University 
of Pennsylvania. He was made a sergeant, first class, July 1, 
1917. December 1, 1918, he was reduced by request to S. 0. 
No. 355. Sergeant Gilmore left the United States August 23, 
1917, and returned April 23, 1919. He was in the following 
battles: Noyon, Verdun, Montdidier-Noyon, Compeigne, Aisne- 
Marne, Oise-Aisne. His unit was decorated and cited by the 
10th French Army, under General Mangen, with the Croix de 
Guerre with Palm. He was given a certificate by the Saumur 
School of Artillery November 23, 1918. He was discharged 
April 26, 1919. 



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Dyson Kennedy writes as follows : 

After several unsuccessful attempts to get into the service 1 
was finally accepted on the twentieth of November, 1917, at the 
Army Recruiting Station in Philadelphia. I was sent to Fort 
Slocum, N. Y., to take the oath and to be assigned to some detach- 
ment. After a few days at Slocum I was attached to Ambulance 
Company No. 8, United States Army, stationed on the Panama 
Canal Zone. We sailed from Hoboken, N. J., at about 4 A. M. on 
the 28th of November and reached Colon, via Porto Rico and 
Cuba, on the 8th of December. We were then sent to Corozal, 
C. Z. 

Our work while in the Ambulance Company was varied. As 
there were but few of us who had enlisted since war was declared 
and as the others were all regulars, we found our course of train- 
ing very rapid and in some cases vague. We were first given 
our drill in squads with men who had been trained to the minute 
by years of experience. It was the greatest help to all of us 
later. We did not have the sort of drills that those who trained 
in the States received. Ours was more learn-as-you-go. We 
accompanied the different branches of the service on their recon- 
naissance manouvers. There were many troops and everj^ 

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branch of the service represented on the Canal and all were 
kept busy trying to prevent any trouble on the Zone and in the 
surrounding countries. Our work gave us all a good insight into 
the activities of Germany in her efforts to destroy the Canal and 
its wonderful usefulness to the Allied cause. At times we were 
with the Infantry, Cavalry, Engineers, Signal Corps, Artillery 
(Mountain and Light Batteries and Coast Defense) A. M. Pack 
Trains and other organizations. We spent practically all our 
time in the jungles and on the sabanas. 

As it looked as if we were to be kept in the tropics during 
the war I tried to get away and endeavored to get transferred. 
No opportunity was available and when orders were issued for 
examinations for officers' training schools I applied at once and 
was fortunate enough to pass. It was some time before we were 
to sail, and the past experience we had had in accompanying the 
mountain and light batteries and seeing their work proved a 
great help to us later. We were given work under the French 
and British officers on the 75s and had good work on the moun- 
tain guns. Our work with mules and horses both in the pack 
trains and the Ambulance service helped greatly. We received 
great help from the Signal Corps in the wigwag, semaphore, 
projector, buzzer, pannel, wireless (of which I know little) and 
the use and working of the field telephones. (I think that many 
returning men could qualify for Hello Girls.) From the 4th 
U. S. Engineers we had a good chance to get a fair idea of map- 
ping. The opportunity of working on the irregular terraine of 
Panama and the adjacent countries furnished a great variety of 
mapping. Of course we were not sent to these outfits to be 
students, but some of us tried to get a line on all the work of the 
different organizations to which we were attached on D. S. 
During our trips it fell to us of the Ambulance Corps to give 
quinine, fix sore feet, insect bites, take care of the sanitation of 
camps and take care of the officers' mounts. 

Just before orders came to sail for the States to attend 
school, I had the opportunity to be allowed to work on one of 
His Majesty's Hospital ships. The ships were plying between 
England and Australia and New Zealand. It was a great work 
and we saw many wonderful and almost indescribable men. 

On reaching New Orleans on our trip to the States I was 
sent to Camp Taylor, Kentucky. For a few days we (10 of us 
from Panama) were started on the regular course of the student 
officer. In a little while our work was changed and we were 

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taught certain things and took the regular course in conduct of 
fire and fire control. We were indeed fortunate to have had the 
good foundation to start on, and it was less hard for us than for 
many that were entering the service. 

The only regret was that on being commissioned we were 
not able to go over and get into the big game in which so many 
of the men from Lansdowne helped and have won the everlast- 
ing praise and esteem of all who know them and the memory of 
those who paid the supreme sacrifice will always be dear to 
each one of us. 

After a short course in teaching and study in the Advanced 
School of Five at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, I was given my discharge 
and my short and interesting term of one year and one month 
in the army was over. I am still in the reserve, and would gladly 
go if I can help any righteous cause. 



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Edwin Welsh Lyster entered service in September, 1917, 
in the 316th Ambulance Company, Division A, of the U. S. A. 
Sanitary Train 204. He received his training at Camp Meade. 
Md. 

He was overseas eleven months and was engaged in the 
battles of Argonne Forest and North of Verdun. 

He returned home in good condition. 



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J. Cooke McLean was rejected for enlistment to the Second 
Officers' Training School in August, 1917, but was drafted and 
sent to Camp Meade in September, 1917. He was assigned to the 
316th Ambulance Co., 70th Division U. S. A. In December, 1917, 
he was made a sergeant. Sergeant MeLean went to the Third 
Officers' Training School at Camp Meade, Md., January 5, 1918, 
and graduated, April 20, 1918, with the grade of battalion ser- 
geant major. Infantry. He was sent to Camp Lee, Va., in May, 

1918, and commissioned a second lieutenant. Infantry, June 1, 

1919. Lieutenant McLean was assigned to the first Replacement 
and Training Battalion at Camp Lee, and served as supply officer 
of that battalion until February 26, 1919, at which time the bat- 
talion was demobilized. 



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Herbert Raymond Ogden enlisted in May, 1917, and was in 
the U. S. Army Ambulance Service with the 363rd Division of 
the French Army. He was in training at Tobyhanna, after 
which he spent nineteen months overseas. October 2, 1918, he 
was transferred to the 2nd Division Marines. 

He was in the following engagements: Champaigne, 
Argonne, St. Mihiel and the Second Marne. 



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Joseph Ryan entered the service June 27, 1918. He was 
sent to Camp Greenleaf for training and was placed in Evacua- 
tion Ambulance Company No. 15. He sailed for overseas August 
23, 1918. While on his way to the front he was attacked by the 
"flu" and was taken to Base Hospital 101, September 30th, and 
died on the morning of October 1st. He was buried in the 
American Cemetery at St. Nazaire. 

Everyone who knew Private Ryan remembers him as a kind 
friend and a genial companion. His loss will be keenly felt. 



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Cleo F. Thomas enlisted July 22, 1917, in Section 593 of the 
U. S. A. Ambulance Service with the French Army at Allentown, Pa. 
It was a New York university unit. He sailed for France August 7, 1917. 
Shortly after arriving in France, he was transferred to Section 649 of the 
same service. They were attached to the American Hospital, ]^o. 1, at 
Xeuilly-sur-Seine. At this post he served during the winter, transporting 
French w^ounded men in and near Paris. 

In March, 1918, they left Paris and saw service in the Somme 
defense. Later they were attached to the First Division of the American 
Army and with them were in the battles of Cantigny, Soissons, St. Mihiel 
and the Argonne. At the start of the Argonne attack they were attached 
to the 35th Division, IT. S. A. They left the front N'ovember 10, and 
a few days later were again attached to the French Army. The latter 
part of ISTovember they moved into Germany with the French Army of 
Occupation, where they served until the last of March, 1919. 

He was wounded at the Battle of Soissons and received a personal 
citation from the division commander for work clone at the same battle, 
was also cited for work at Cantigny, Soissons and the Argonne. The 
section was cited while working in Paris, for work at the explosion of 
an ammunition depot at La Courneuve. He reached America May 28, 
and was discharged June 5, 1919. 

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Arthur Underhill enlisted August 16, 1917, in the U. S. 
Army Ambulance Section; first serving with the French Army 
and later in the Second Division of the American Army. He was 
in training at Allentown and at Tobyhanna, after which he spent 
sixteen months overseas. He was in the Battles of St. Mihiel, 
Somme, and Meuse-Argonne. 



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Clinton H. Miller, a teacher in the Lansdowne school, 
took a preparatory course in ordnance stores keeping at the 
University of Pennsylvania, October and November, 1917. He 
enlisted at Washington Barracks, December 4, 1917. He was 
at the Ordnance Training School, Augusta Arsenal, Ga., during 
December and January, 1917-1918. He was in the Ordnance 
Department, Washington, D. C. February and March, 1918. 
Ordnance General Supply Depot, Ga., April to July, 1918. He 
spent from August until November in an officers training school 
for Field Artillery; from there he went to the School of Fire 
for Artillery Officers at Fort Sill, Okla., during November and 
December, 1918. He received the ranks of ordnance sergeant 
and second lieutenant Field Artillery. Lieutenant Miller was 
discharged December 17, 1918. He said his only wounds were 
hurt feelings because he did not get overseas. 



Edward Thomas Williams enhsted August 5, 1917. He 
was in Company I, 812th Regiment of Infantry. Private Williams 
was trained at Camp Custer, Michigan ; Camp Grant, 111. ; Camp 
Merritt, N. J., and then was sent back to Camp Grant, and finally 
to Camp Sherman, Ohio, where he was equipped with his over- 
seas outfit, but did not get over. He was made a first class 
private, and received his discharge January 6, 1919. 



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Ralph Levis went to France June 15, 1918, with Unit 2, 
Friends' Reconstruction Corps. He was stationed at Bessacon, 
Ornans and Paris. After the signing of the armistice he was 
engaged in the work of restoring the peasants' homes in Verdun. 



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Raymond T. Moore enlisted in the American Friends Recon- 
struction Unit on the date of his sailing for France, February 2, 
1918. He spent fourteen months overseas. Three weeks of 
this time in June, 1918, he was evacuating, in motor cars, civil- 
ians and wounded in the front of the German advance in the 
Marne, to Chateau Thierry. He spent five months repairing 
houses and building small wooden structures to take care of 
civilians as they returned to their old places of habitation in 
the above named area. This was from November, 1918, until 
March, 1919. He was discharged April 14, 1919. 



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Clarence Pennell was in France from August 23, 1918, 
until August, 1919, doing reconstruction work under the Friends' 
organization. 



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Leslie Pennell, 93 West LaCrosse Avenue, enlisted June 
15, 1918, in Unit No. 2, Friends' Reconstruction He spent about 
one year oversea's restoring peasants' homes in Verdun, Bessacon, 
Ormans and Paris. 



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I wish to take advantage of this occasion to thank the boys for their 
kindness in helping me in this work. In almost every case, the boy did 
promptly what he could to contribute to the success of the undertaking. I 
was unable to locate: 

Wakkex Hardigan 

♦ AXD 

Elmer Xash 

They were both in service. Harry and Edwin Sharp had returned to 
England, and were no doubt in service, but I could not find them. 

The following were in service, but did not care to respond: 

Frederick Chandler 
Francis Delp 
Burton Chandler 

The insignia in this book were drawn by Ruth Collings, Sophomore in 
Lansdowne High School. 

Three of our girls, Catherine Dougherty, Rhea Egolf and Miriam 
Kane spent several months in overseas service. 

About fifty more of our boys were taking military training in the 
various S. A. T. C's. (School Army Training Corps). One member of an 
S. A. T. C. who is gifted with wonderful musical ability, went as an enter- 
tainer on the transports conveying home the soldiers, and a number of 
others left our school to attend military schools, such as Culver, Indiana, 
and St. John's, Wisconsin. One entered West Point so that when they 
reached the required age, they might be ready for service; thus all seemed 
thoroughly imbued with the idea — Liberty for the world at any price. 

Although so far removed from the scene of action, war times brought 
experiences which the youngest children in our school will never forget; 
the limitations in the use of flour, coal, sugar, meat, the lightless nights, 
and the automobile-less Sundays. Sights and sounds hitherto unknown 
to us became familiar, such as the military drills of the Home Guards on 
the school grounds each Friday evening; in these drills practically all of 
our High School boys took part. Also the sight of long motor trains, con- 
sisting of anywhere from fifty to one-hundred-and-fifty trucks passing along 
Baltimore Avenue bi-weekly, sometimes oftener, enroute from Buffalo to 
Baltimore, with supplies for "overseas." 



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THE American soldier commonly called the ''Doughboy," on 
account of having a Baker (Secretary of War) at their 
head, won from the world admiration and respect. 

That never-to-be-forgotten battle at Chateau Thierry must 
go down in history as one of the decisive battles of the world ; for 
there the tide turned. From that day on the Germans were 
forced back, back, back, never to gain new ground again. 

I can best describe our American soldier in the words of 
President Wilson : 'The mere sight of our men, of their vigor, 
of the confidence that showed itself in every movement of their 
stalwart figures and every turn of their swinging march, in their 
steady comprehending eyes and easy discipline, in the indom- 
itable air that added spirit to everything they did, made everyone 
who saw them realize that something more had happened than 
the mere arrival of fresh troops. A great moral force had flung 
itself into the struggle. Their very presence brought reassur- 
ance; their fighting made victory certain. 

"Finer men never went into battle, and their officers were 
worthy of them." 

Ida M. Tarbell tells us that a great French surgeon, under 
whose hand scores of our boys had gone, a silent man as a rule, 
said once to an American nurse, "There's something in them I 
have never seen in men or women before, something in their 
eyes. I don't know whether it's your Monroe Doctrine, or Presi- 
dent Wilson, or God Almighty; but they have something that 
other men have not." What the doctor saw was the Soul of 
America. 

Finally, fellow teachers, what lesson has this great war for 
us? Our two hundred and fifty boys were scattered throughout 
the world. Were you in Egypt with our boy? Did the people 
of Siberia feel your influence through our boy there? Did the 
Germans realize, through your teaching, that there is a stronger 
influence than mere brute force? Did the Englishman get from 
our boy a broader, nobler idea of humanity, because you had 
taught him? Did the wounded Poilu feel a more tender, gentler 
sympathy from his Doughboy comrade on account of some seed 
you had sown? Did our boy in the midst of the vast expanse of 
the Pacific Ocean have a greater appreciation of the sublimity of 
God's world and the breadth of His love because he had been 
with you? Did the world see in our boys a stronger spirit of 
Americanism because they had been pupils in the Lansdowne 
Public School? Fellow workers, this is our privilege. May we 
never lose sight of it in our teaching. 

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AMERICAN LEGION POST, No. 65 

On the evening of July 15, 1919, an organization meeting 
was held in the school auditorium, at which meeting the first post 
of the American Legion in Delaware County was organized. 
It will be known as the Albert Clinton Wunderlich Post, No. 65. 
Out of the six officers elected four are Lansdowne School boys. 
Chairman, Captain. W. S. Landes; Secretary, Lieutenant A. 
Sproul; Treasurer, Yeoman E. H. Davis; Insurance officer, 
Sergeant Arthur V. Davenport. 

They formulated plans for a celebration to be held on Armis- 
tice Day. The Post is growing in membership daily. 



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HELPERS IN THE WAR GARDEN 




275 



TRITE SAYINGS CONNECTED WITH THE WAR 



■'Lafayette, We're Here." 

General Persh'uig at the toDib of Lafayette. 

"They Shall Not Pass." 

The SIoga)i at Belleaii Wood. 

"Ladies From Hell." 

Name given by the GeriJtatis to the Scottish troops. 
It is said of the Scotch troops that they never took a prisoner. 

"Staxd and Die." 

The order given to Companies L and M of the 28th Division at Cheateau 
Thierry. 

"These Are Not Soldiers, They Are Iron Men." 

Pershing said of the 28th Division. 

"There Can Be No Peace Until the Stars and Stripes Are Planted on the 
East Bank of the Rhine River." 
General Clement. 

"First to Fight." 

Slogan of the Marines. 

"When Men Shall Fly Like Birds, Ten Great Kings Will Go to War One 
Against Another." 

An old prophecy, given in I/95. 

"Treat 'Em Rough, Boys." 

The 6=,th Regiment at Camp Meade. 

"Only Those Are Fit to Live Who Do Not Fear to Die." 
Roosevelt. 



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INDEX 



Page 

School Building 3 

Groce, H. Emilie 4 

Philips, Walter L 5 

Garrett, Isaac P 6 

Baker, J. Eugene 7 

School Board 8 

Faculty for 1917-1918 8 

Faculty for 1918-1919 9 

School Activities during War 

Times 11 

Second Division U. S. A. 
Marines 

Anderson, David 17 

Breen, Frederick 18 

Ebrey, Walter 19 

Farren, Harry 20 

Galbraith, George 21 

Greene, Samuel 22 

Heinaman, Manus 23 

Kelly, William 24 

Matsing-er, Neall 25 

Osborne, Wendell 26 

Wetzel, Frank 27 

Twenty-Eighth Division, 
U. S. A. 

Baker, Walter 31 

Blester, Jr. William 32 

Boner, James 55 

Brockmeyer, Charles 33 

Brockmeyer, William 34 

Brown, Howard 35 

Browne, Nelson 36 

Brown, Stephen 37 

Carlile Walter 38 

Craig, Leslie 39 

Lyster, Walter 40 

Magens, Garrett 41 

McConaghy, George 42 

McNamee, Raymond 43 



Page 

Pusey, Stuart 44 

Quinlan, Paul, Jr . 45 

Ryan, Francis 46 

Shep'pard, Daniel 47 

Shoemaker, Richardson, Jr. . . . 48 

Stier, Kenneth 49 

Stokes, Reeves, Jr 50 

Taylor, Carlile 51 

Taylor, Russell 52 

Taylor, James, Jr 53 

Trout, Walter 54 

Warren, George 55 

Warren, Rutherford 56 

Wetzel, Paul 57 

Wright, Franklin 58 

Wright, Haviland 59 

Wright, Paul 60 

Seventy-Ninth Division, 
U. S. A. 

Archamibauit, George 63 

Davenport, Arthur 64 

De Negre, Paul 65 

Douthwaite, Arthur 66 

Garrett, Robert 67 

Kerr, Owen 68 

McConaghy., Thomas . 69 

McNamee, Walter 70 

McShane, Edward 71 

Schwartz, Bernard 72 

Skilling, Kennard 73 

Sproul, Alphonzo, Jr 74 

Uhl, Irwin 75 

Wunderlich, Clinton 76 

U. S. Navy 

Alexander, Robert 79 

Balch, Frederick 80 

Balch, Walter 81 

Barrett, George 82 

Bonsai, Frederick 135 

Bostick, Frederick 83 



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Page 

Brown, Alfred 84 

Brown, Joseph 85 

Brown, James 86 

Beck, Fred 87 

Bryan, Arthur 88 

Buckley, John 134 

Burgoyne, Clarke 89 

Cliffe, Fred 90 

Dalton, William 92 

Damon, Gilroy 93 

Davis, Edward 94 

Davis, Reid 95 

Eagle, Francis 96 

Elder, Graham 97 

English, Herbert 98 

Garrett, Lewis 99 

Garrett, Stevenson 100 

Gilbert, Lincoln, Jr 101 

Hagerty, Robert 102 

Hagy, Harold 103 

Haley, William 104 

Hoist, Douglas (Constant).... 105 

Husband, Edgar 106 

Jackson, Herbert 107 

Jochman, Eugene 134 

Kelly, Charles 108 

Kidd, William 109 

King, Rodney 110 

Lindenmayer, Arthur Ill 

Lyster, Jr., Nelson 112 

McConaghy, William 113 

McKenna, Ernest 114 

McKissick, Horace 115 

Mercer, Robert 116 

Milloy, James 134 

O'Brien, Arthur 136 

Pilling, Robert 117 

Powell, Cecil 118 

Powell, Eugene 119 

Roelofs, Chauncey 120 

Rochford, William 121 

Skilling, Willard 123 

Sproul, Gustavus 122 

Stokes, Clayton 124 

Sullivan, Frank 125 

Umstead, Horace 126 

Walton, Kirby 127 

Ware, John 128 

Ware, Richard 129 

Watkin, William 130 

Watson, Harry 131 

Whitehorn, Roger 132 

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Page 

Miscellaneous 

Allen, James 139 

Anderson, Harold 140 

Anderson, Russell 141 

Baker, Eugene 142 

Bartram, Albert 143 

Beacham, Noble 144 

Beatty, Lucian 145 

Bechlar, Gillas 146 

Boyd, John 147 

Brown, William 148 

Bryan, Olin 149 

Callow Paul 150 

Carskaddon, Kenneth 151 

Cliffe, Raleigh 152 

Coble, Herbert 153 

Cook, Edmund 154 

Courter, Lewis 155 

Crawford, Frew 156 

Dolbier, Van 157 

Dunlap, Stewart 158 

Eagle, Aloysius 159 

Eagle, Louis 160 

Earle, Ralph 162 

Ellis, Raymond 163 

Enderle, Robert 164 

Epplesheimer, Clarence, Jr.... 165 

Frost, Edward 166 

Greiner, Craig 167 

Hart, Earl 168 

Hoffman, William 169 

Hauf, Leopold 170 

Hoag, Kenneth 171 

Hood, William, Jr 172 

Hunt Clarkson 173 

Huquenele, Hudson 174 

Irwin, Robert 175 

Johnston, Wesley 176 

Johnson, George 177 

Jones, Henry 178 

Kelly, Joseph 179 

Kerr, Alexander 180 

King, Lawton 181 

King, Paul 182 

Korn, Adolph 183 

Landes, Richard 184 

Landes, Stuart 185 

Levis, Ralph 268 

Lewis, Fred 186 

Livingston, Robert 188 

Lynch, Daniel 189 



Page 

Martin, Carlile 190 

Martin, Edward 191 

Matsinger, Herbert 192 

McLean, Donald 193 

McLean, Louis 194 

Michener, Walter 195 

Miller, Clinton 267 

Moore, Raymond 269 

Morrison iSidney 196 

Murton, Allaire 197 

Neall, Robert 198 

Pendergast, Gerald 199 

Pennell, Clarence . 270 

Pennell, Leslie 271 

Roberts, Harold 200 

Schappet, Charles 201 

Schappet, Raymond 202 

Shaffner, John 203 

Shoemaker, Shedden 204 

Simpler, Albert 206 

Simpler, Roland 206 

Spurr, Edward 207 

Stewart, Albert 208 

Stewart, Harry 209 

Stewart, Wallace 210 

Stevenson, Wilfred, Jr 211 

Walton, James 212 

Warren, Harold 213 

Watson, Raymond 214 

Weigel, John 215 

Williams, Edward 267 

Wilson, Edgar 216 

Wilson, John 217 

Wright, Thomas 218 

Ziegler, Williamson Jr 219 

Aviation 

Batten, Arthur 223 

Bayne, Louis 224 

Bradley, Clifford 225 

Donaghy, Ralph 226 



Page 

Ferguson, Robert 227 

Fraatz, Herbert 228 

Hannum, Thos 229 

Hannum, Wilmer 230 

Kennedy, James 231 

Morton, Edmund 232 

Sanders, Walter 233 

Stewart, Louis 234 

Sullivan, William 235 

Medical Corps 

Burdsall, Edward 239 

Burrows, E arl 240 

Crawford., Williamson 241 

Dunlap, Walter 242 

Duvoisin, Numa 244 

Fackler, Guy . 245 

Hendrickson, Edward 246 

Kellett, John 247 

King, Francis 248 

Livingston, Walter 249 

McConaghy, Stewart 250 

Pilling, Charles 251 

Taylor, Leslie 252 

Ambulance Service 

Dewar, Arthur 255 

Donnelly, James 256 

Gilmore, Wheeler 257 

Kennedy, Dyson 258 

Lvster, Edward 261 

McLean Cooke 262 

• Ogden, Raymond 263 

Ryan, Joseph 264 

Thomas, Cleo 265 

Underbill, Arthur 266 

General Remarks 272 

Helpers in the War Garden . . . 275 

Trite Sayings connected with 

THE War 276 



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